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Loud, blaring music can be heard coming from the open Transfiguration classroom. It's beckoning you to enter....?
Shaw, dressed in a long alligator skin cloak, has seated himself in a desk at the back of the room. The desk is turned so that he can see everyone that enters and no one will ever be at his back. He's removed his hat and his head shines a little from the incoming sunlight. The rest of the room is typical: desks in rows, chalkboard, books, dust.
No directions are given, no friendly smiles. Enter if you're up for learning a little something something from Shaw. But I wouldn't interrupt until the song was over if I were you...
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Rain giggled and knudged her with wide eyes.
[B]"He still scares me. Wonder what they put in HIS pumpkin juice.." she whispers.[/B]In a more prompt voice, she called out an answer.
Nika laughed at her comment. "Well whatever it is I say we take it away from him. It's obviously doing him no good." Scary SHAW dude needs to calm down....
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Took another bite of cup? Really? Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse.
Find partner, find a partner. Zara shouted, "HEY! Who wants to partner up, Gryffindors?"
If no one would come up, she'd have to work alone, which isn't bad either.
Nika then ran over to the girl she had met at the feast. What was her name again....? Zara? Yeah that sounds right. "WOOO GRYFFIES!!!" She smiled at her and jumped up and down. "Gryffies over here!"
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La La LA *Bumps into five people*No, I don't mind!
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Okay. Okay. Okay.
Hold it!
Peyton was still confused. She got the group dividing and stuff, but rest just zoomed through one and out the other. Couldn't Shaw like...speak properly? The girl was having difficulty in decifering what he wanted them to do.
Flowers?
Were they going to transfigure things into flowers? If that was the case Peyton was ready...and if it wasn't then...well, she was lost.
Come up with them words? What the heck?
Her head hurt. Whatever.
Now, partnering time! "Who's a Slytherin?" 'cause she needed a partner. Peyton didn't want to go around checking everyone's robes to see of they were snakes.
Rain hopped up and down.
"Hey darling! I'm a Slythie too!"
Rain knew they both probably would epically fail at this but fun was needed in this confusion.
"Any idea what were doing?" She breathed.
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Nika laughed at her comment. "Well whatever it is I say we take it away from him. It's obviously doing him no good." Scary SHAW dude needs to calm down...
"Haha like a hippogriff. It's friendly if you play along and bow but will slash you if you stammer a word of displeasement." She retorted. This class was going to be a long one.
Shaw ran his palm over his bald head while nodding. "You've done this before. Shaw can tell! I like it. You got them steps memorized. Visualizing, then wand waving, incantation. Whatcha need me for?" Shaw smiled anyway, utterly confused.
"There's that water goblet again. Where'd that come from? Says who? Latin didn't say water goblet!"
Shaw yodeled when chainsaw roared to LIFE AGAIN!
"YODELEEEEEHHHEEEEHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Which one of them wanted power??? THEY should be asking for turns on the chainsaw. Shaw left helmet girl person to her carving and sawing. She had the gist of it. Shaw had taught her everything he knew about chainsaws.
"LET HER RIP!" She'd made a pretty good S. S's were hard, Shaw knew. "Socks?" he laughed. "Socks are IMMMMMportant. That will be your personal project errr you." Person girl thing.
Now that chainsaw fun time was over again, Shaw turned back to all these people congregated around him. What...
Oh yeah.
"Aren't we doing stuff now?" Weren't they? Shaw was almost sure they were. Almost. "You probably know best. Let's get into groups. Yall like groups? Brilliant stuff comes out of groups."
"So let's you yellow wearing people work together. Then the ones wearing red work together. Blues with blues and greens with greens. If you don't know what I'm on about you can get in that there last group that I labeled," Shaw had to turn and see what he'd labeled it as," Err Everyone else?. Or work alone if you're into that."
Shaw stared at the board, then back to the class. "Right there. Your job is to come up with them there fancy words, Latin words, that you can use to change your stuff into well....other stuff. No promises they'll work, but understanding the ROOT before you grow flowers is always best, I say. Same for transfiguration. So go on now. Use your text books. Find them fancy words. Shaw will try out the ones I think will work best at the end."
Okay? Shaw looked confused and ate another bite of cup.
Of course he had done it before, his mother had been a Professor of Transfiguration of Beauxbaton's and after that he had had too of the great Transfiguration Professors of all time, Kingsley and Magnus, so he knew what to do but it seemed that Shaw didn't cause, even though he loved really liked Destiny, he knew that no one should arm her with a chainsaw.
X_____X
The Lion died a little on the inside when he saw the chainsaw rip into motion, he breathed a small sigh of relief that he hadn't arrived in time to sit next to Destiny, for it would possible mean that he wouldn't have finished the class in one piece.
Talking the direction for the Prof-Shaw, Patroclus looked around for some Lions, it seemed they were in charge of protection. Red people: shield/armor/hard hat He could do that he thought as he began to speak to whomever was listening, "Well there is the armour spell," he stated as he removed his wand, and rolled it between his fingers ending in a upwards flick, "Loricatus!", the sensation of weight covering his arm as he had intended it, "However that is a charm not a Transfiguring spell, so it seems we win have to revert to the Latin Dicitionary!"
Mom says I have no sense of direction, so I packed my bags and right.
Oakey looked around to see if he could find other Hufflepuffs he could partner up with.He had moved around the room so much had had forgotten where everyone was.
ooc. I'm sooo lost right now, heeeelp me
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Theodore was extremely excited upon hearing the next task. Latin prefixes were his absolute favorite! Digging out one of his textbooks, he searched and searched. So, he had to transfigure... something into ear muffs, then a watch, then sunglasses, and finally, a hat. Make it a stetson hat, to please the professor.
"Well," He began, his eyes scanning through the pages of his book. "For ear muffs, you could say... silentium? Or... ent, which means ear, and... quies quietis, which means quiet or silence. Ent quies quietis?"
After a moment, he searched for the next latin words. What would work for 'watch?' "Hm..." He tapped his fingers on the book, searching and searching, until... "Nunc obtineo? Nunc means 'now' or 'at the present time' and obtineo means 'holder.' Aren't watches essentially time holders?"
Two to go! Scribbling down his previous ideas, Theodore moved onto the next word. Sunglasses? Like those that the professor seemed to be fond of? "Desino means to stop or desist and oculus means eye, so... for sun, we could use... sol solis! So... Ocudesino sol solis!" Truthfully, he was a bit overly proud about this little incantation he had just created. "Did you give the Ravenclaws the tough ones on purpose?" Raising an eyebrow at the teacher, he embarked on the last part of the task: mask.
Clapping his hands together, he became a bit slap-happy about discovering the last Latin words. "Os means mask, literally, and tego means to cover or conceal. Ostego!"
Shaw winked at that there blue one.
"Team Shaw." He raised his arm into the shape of a L, his hand making a fist. "Team Shaw."
THAT one was doing good, Shaw thought.
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Zara searched in her textbook, while she was paired up with Nika.
"Hi Nika!" she greeted her fellow Gryffindor.
She raised her hand to Shaw, "Yo Shaw! How about trying 'Contego' for the shield thing?"
Then she lowered down her voice now that his attention was caught. "Or maybe Armatura for the armor. Or you can try Durus fetus?"
"Why would I do that? You do it. Might want to wait until someone comes up with that first aide kit though. You tell me if it works." Might work? Sounded more like a charm to him, but maybe?
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Of course he had done it before, his mother had been a Professor of Transfiguration of Beauxbaton's and after that he had had too of the great Transfiguration Professors of all time, Kingsley and Magnus, so he knew what to do but it seemed that Shaw didn't cause, even though he loved really liked Destiny, he knew that no one should arm her with a chainsaw.
X_____X
The Lion died a little on the inside when he saw the chainsaw rip into motion, he breathed a small sigh of relief that he hadn't arrived in time to sit next to Destiny, for it would possible mean that he wouldn't have finished the class in one piece.
Talking the direction for the Prof-Shaw, Patroclus looked around for some Lions, it seemed they were in charge of protection. Red people: shield/armor/hard hat He could do that he thought as he began to speak to whomever was listening, "Well there is the armour spell," he stated as he removed his wand, and rolled it between his fingers ending in a upwards flick, "Loricatus!", the sensation of weight covering his arm as he had intended it, "However that is a charm not a Transfiguring spell, so it seems we win have to revert to the Latin Dicitionary!"
"Wooooo wheeeeeeeeeeeee smart one in the red. You've done this before, haven't you?" Had he already said that? Shaw made the L-shaped arm motion again. "Team Shaw." That one in red was ON his team.
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Originally Posted by TwistedHearts
Zara searched in her textbook, while she was paired up with Nika.
"Hi Nika!" she greeted her fellow Gryffindor.
She raised her hand to Shaw, "Yo Shaw! How about trying 'Contego' for the shield thing?"
Then she lowered down her voice now that his attention was caught. "Or maybe Armatura for the armor. Or you can try Durus fetus?"
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Originally Posted by PattyH.
Of course he had done it before, his mother had been a Professor of Transfiguration of Beauxbaton's and after that he had had too of the great Transfiguration Professors of all time, Kingsley and Magnus, so he knew what to do but it seemed that Shaw didn't cause, even though he loved really liked Destiny, he knew that no one should arm her with a chainsaw.
X_____X
The Lion died a little on the inside when he saw the chainsaw rip into motion, he breathed a small sigh of relief that he hadn't arrived in time to sit next to Destiny, for it would possible mean that he wouldn't have finished the class in one piece.
Talking the direction for the Prof-Shaw, Patroclus looked around for some Lions, it seemed they were in charge of protection. Red people: shield/armor/hard hat He could do that he thought as he began to speak to whomever was listening, "Well there is the armour spell," he stated as he removed his wand, and rolled it between his fingers ending in a upwards flick, "Loricatus!", the sensation of weight covering his arm as he had intended it, "However that is a charm not a Transfiguring spell, so it seems we win have to revert to the Latin Dicitionary!"
Nika motioned towards another Gryffindor to come towards Zara and herself. "So...." Nika was completely lost...
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Of course he had done it before, his mother had been a Professor of Transfiguration of Beauxbaton's and after that he had had too of the great Transfiguration Professors of all time, Kingsley and Magnus, so he knew what to do but it seemed that Shaw didn't cause, even though he loved really liked Destiny, he knew that no one should arm her with a chainsaw.
X_____X
The Lion died a little on the inside when he saw the chainsaw rip into motion, he breathed a small sigh of relief that he hadn't arrived in time to sit next to Destiny, for it would possible mean that he wouldn't have finished the class in one piece.
Talking the direction for the Prof-Shaw, Patroclus looked around for some Lions, it seemed they were in charge of protection. Red people: shield/armor/hard hat He could do that he thought as he began to speak to whomever was listening, "Well there is the armour spell," he stated as he removed his wand, and rolled it between his fingers ending in a upwards flick, "Loricatus!", the sensation of weight covering his arm as he had intended it, "However that is a charm not a Transfiguring spell, so it seems we win have to revert to the Latin Dicitionary!"
Zara took out her Latin Dictionary from her bag. Now how did it get there? She didn't know.
"Erm, Mr. Prefect. There's one here called Contego. It is defined as: to cover, shield, protect, defend... But I don't really know." She said and handed over her dictionary to him. It was better off in his hands than hers. Maybe he'd find it useful.
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"Why would I do that? You do it. Might want to wait until someone comes up with that first aide kit though. You tell me if it works." Might work? Sounded more like a charm to him, but maybe?
Oops, so it was them who was gonna try out the spells. Zara gulped, she'd rather not. Maybe she'll take Shaw's advice and wait for that first aid kit before trying anything. Zara is after all only a first year, no experience at all. "Will do, Shaw."
"Wooooo wheeeeeeeeeeeee smart one in the red. You've done this before, haven't you?" Had he already said that? Shaw made the L-shaped arm motion again. "Team Shaw." That one in red was ON his team.
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Nika motioned towards another Gryffindor to come towards Zara and herself. "So...." Nika was completely lost...
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Zara took out her Latin Dictionary from her bag. Now how did it get there? She didn't know.
"Erm, Mr. Prefect. There's one here called Contego. It is defined as: to cover, shield, protect, defend... But I don't really know." She said and handed over her dictionary to him. It was better off in his hands than hers. Maybe he'd find it useful.
Laughing ever so slightly, Patroclus couldn't help but grin, come on! Everyone like to be told they were smart!
Smiling at Zara and Nika, he nodded and then had some ideas "Another Idea would be to break down the words into Latin, must like Zara said, so to achieve Body armour, we could say, 'Corpus Armatura!' and use a wand in an upwards motion, from the feet to the head, effectively tranfiguring our clothing into body armour, and then once that was established we could even try adding suxifixes onto the spells to introduce especialised pieces like the helmet," he nodded his mind and mouth working in quick succession, so it could be 'Corpus Armatura Cassida!' We could carry on the wand motion, but circle the head to finishing, turning say a hat into a helmet, or even transfiguring one's hair!"
Patroclus really wanted to try this out, but perhaps on someone else......
Kyle Coppied down the whole list of words - after all being a Ravenclaw she wanted to learn all the spells that worked and didn't.
SPOILER!!: List of Words & "Spells"
Red people: shield/armor/hard hat
Blue people: ear muffs/watch/sunglasses/mask
Green people: mighty hammer/weapon/first aid kit
Yellow people: pillow/cushion/nice chair
Everyone else?: water bottle/cup/flute/poodle (purple)/lint roller
Chainsaw girl that needs socks: Socks
Looking up to Shaw she began writing out bottle and the possible root words she could use from it. Think. Think. Think. Bott- Bott- Butticula she remembered from when her father had made her take Latin classes over the summer. Yay for her father that pushed her way way way too hard to learn muggle and magical everythings.
And she knew the root word for water...Aqua after all it meant water in Spanish which was derrived from the Latin or "Romance" Languages.
"Butticula Aquatica" she tried, nothing - that formation didn't work...but she felt she was on the right path.
"Butticula d'Aqua" no, it didn't work. Then she remembered, it wasn't Butticula - that was only one way to say it and that meant more barrels. She sighed, thinking yet again before nearly yelling out the word. "Uter! she blushed as she realized how much attention she had probably drawn to herself.
Pointing her wand in front of her at a paper cup she had "Professor shaw would you think Utter Aqua would be the a good start to a spell to change this paper cup into a water bottle?" She asked excitedly. She would make it work.
Once she got the wording down she'd move on to the movements the second she saw the little cup semi-transform she'd try and move on and get the movement down until she found a bottle infront of her. Still the the word Buttilculaqualus seemed to ring in her ear like it was calling to her.
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Laughing ever so slightly, Patroclus couldn't help but grin, come on! Everyone like to be told they were smart!
Smiling at Zara and Nika, he nodded and then had some ideas "Another Idea would be to break down the words into Latin, must like Zara said, so to achieve Body armour, we could say, 'Corpus Armatura!' and use a wand in an upwards motion, from the feet to the head, effectively tranfiguring our clothing into body armour, and then once that was established we could even try adding suxifixes onto the spells to introduce especialised pieces like the helmet," he nodded his mind and mouth working in quick succession, so it could be 'Corpus Armatura Cassida!' We could carry on the wand motion, but circle the head to finishing, turning say a hat into a helmet, or even transfiguring one's hair!"
Patroclus really wanted to try this out, but perhaps on someone else......
Jeez even the first year was smarter than her. "That sounds like a really good idea!" Plus it was better than anything she would've come up with. That's why he's a prefect. Now if only Nika could be that smart, then she could potentially become one too.
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...oh man, was she ever lost. It just goes to show that you shouldn't look at your shoes, because she'd done that and suddenly people were yelling house names and English words and non-English words and some girl was using the chainsaw. Hateya sort of clutched her wand to herself, at least knowing enough that she needed it for what they were doing. Probably.
Wait, he'd said something about a textbook, hadn't he? She grabbed that too, looking around with wide eyes as people kept shouting.
Christina watched as her fellow students were told "Team Shaw" and told Shaw fancy Latin words. That was all she could do; watch. She slammed her head down on her desk in frustration, shutting her book with her face after reading it for the tenth time. Transfiguration was literally the only subject she couldn't understand. She looked up for a moment to glare at Shaw, whispering angrily to herself, "I just don't get it!" It wouldn't help and it was childish and petty, but it still made her feel a little better.
"Alllllll righty then. Let's see." Shaw got up to his feet, put his hands to the small of his back and surveyed their list for a long, long time. Then he scratched his stubble for an equally long time. When he finally turned back around again, he was startled to see so many KIDS looking at him.
"Uhhh right then there. Well some of you know and some of you don't. That's alright, you'll learn probably. You can't conjure food, so if you put food up there go ahead and pretend it wasn't you but your friend that wrote it." Sound advice. "And you can't conjure up OR transfigure something into a real person, so all you wanting friends and professors..." yeah, no. He wasn't offended at all.
The scratching began again. "Basically, if I can't carry it in my hand then you can't transfigure it. Yall know that? Why'd someone write happiness? You know where we are?" It sort of sounded like Shaw didn't know himself.
Right then. Shaw went back to the board, studied the chalk, then erased about half of the answers. He occasionally threw nervous glances over his shoulder and during the middle of his erasing and writing, he retrieved his alligator cloak and re-donned it. When he finally finished, the board read:
"There. There we go. There we go now. I put them there together like that. Makes sense. We'll get to that. First I need to know how do we go about transfiguring things? Magic words? Wand movements? Right? Where's them come from? Who makes up the words? What are the words? Why'd I'd make them there groups you think?" He pointed to the grouped words on the board.
Selina flinched when he went up to the board afraid that he may draw his chainsaw on the unsuspecting students again. When he didn't she let out a sigh of relief, she was safe... for now. He reorganized all of their answers and she smiled when she saw her suggestion was on the board- shield. She was the only one who had written that answer, although it was more for protection against the lunatic.
When he asked where all of the magical incantations came from Selina rose her hand, "Some of them are Latin roots, sir. Although some are completely random or Greek roots. However, the majority relate to a lot of Latin." This was one thing she knew well being that Selina spoke Latin and was very well versed in the ancient language of the Romans, "You also put the groups in order of the houses... or the colors that you see... which are houses."
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There were like two, maybe three really smart people in this room. They "GOT IT". "You got it, you! You're 'gettin' it' is good! Usually them fancy words we use are from some other fancy word. Latin, they call it. Like .... who wanted a poodle? You'd probably use some version of Fera Verto."
Shaw looked at the students, SMILED with all his teeth, and then scratched. "You know why? What's them words mean? Fera Verto? Them's Latin."
Selina, being the Latin nerd she was, rose her hand and said, "Fero Verto comes from the Latin word ferus and the Latin word vertere. It literally means to bring on wild animal, however, in a magical sense it brings on a change in an animal into a cup. So you can see the similarity between the translation and the spell."
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"Aren't we doing stuff now?" Weren't they? Shaw was almost sure they were. Almost. "You probably know best. Let's get into groups. Yall like groups? Brilliant stuff comes out of groups."
"So let's you yellow wearing people work together. Then the ones wearing red work together. Blues with blues and greens with greens. If you don't know what I'm on about you can get in that there last group that I labeled," Shaw had to turn and see what he'd labeled it as," Err Everyone else?. Or work alone if you're into that."
Shaw stared at the board, then back to the class. "Right there. Your job is to come up with them there fancy words, Latin words, that you can use to change your stuff into well....other stuff. No promises they'll work, but understanding the ROOT before you grow flowers is always best, I say. Same for transfiguration. So go on now. Use your text books. Find them fancy words. Shaw will try out the ones I think will work best at the end."
Okay? Shaw looked confused and ate another bite of cup.
Selina looked around for all of the Gryffindors to get together. The assignment was simple... and Selina knew Latin.
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Selina looked around for all of the Gryffindors to get together. The assignment was simple... and Selina knew Latin.
Nika motioned to Selina for her to come over and join the little Gryffie group that she was apart of. "Hey Selina Gryffindors are over here." She called out happily.
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Laughing ever so slightly, Patroclus couldn't help but grin, come on! Everyone like to be told they were smart!
Smiling at Zara and Nika, he nodded and then had some ideas "Another Idea would be to break down the words into Latin, must like Zara said, so to achieve Body armour, we could say, 'Corpus Armatura!' and use a wand in an upwards motion, from the feet to the head, effectively tranfiguring our clothing into body armour, and then once that was established we could even try adding suxifixes onto the spells to introduce especialised pieces like the helmet," he nodded his mind and mouth working in quick succession, so it could be 'Corpus Armatura Cassida!' We could carry on the wand motion, but circle the head to finishing, turning say a hat into a helmet, or even transfiguring one's hair!"
Patroclus really wanted to try this out, but perhaps on someone else......
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Jeez even the first year was smarter than her. "That sounds like a really good idea!" Plus it was better than anything she would've come up with. That's why he's a prefect. Now if only Nika could be that smart, then she could potentially become one too.
Zara loved the idea, she sure was glad to have a friendly and SMART prefect. "You could try it on me. I won't mind it. Though should we transfigure the hair? Cause I have a hat in my bag." She volunteered. Now, how did that hat get in her bag? She still didn't know. It was in her nature to bring stuff randomly and luckily, she brought the dictionary and hat on that day. Plus, she didn't want her hair to become a helmet.
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Salander stared at disbelief when Shaw actually gave Destiny the chainsaw. Shaw wielding the chainsaw was one thing, Destiny wielding the chainsaw was quite another.
Apparently Shaw knows nothing of Destiny's talet with a walnut and a bat.
Nonetheless it was awesome to see Destiny carve her suggestion down. Salander leaned forward and for a while wondering if he should try his hand with it.
SPOILER!!: ChainShaw
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Now that chainsaw fun time was over again, Shaw turned back to all these people congregated around him. What...
Oh yeah.
"Aren't we doing stuff now?" Weren't they? Shaw was almost sure they were. Almost. "You probably know best. Let's get into groups. Yall like groups? Brilliant stuff comes out of groups."
"So let's you yellow wearing people work together. Then the ones wearing red work together. Blues with blues and greens with greens. If you don't know what I'm on about you can get in that there last group that I labeled," Shaw had to turn and see what he'd labeled it as," Err Everyone else?. Or work alone if you're into that."
Red people: shield/armor/hard hat
Blue people: ear muffs/watch/sunglasses/mask
Green people: mighty hammer/weapon/first aid kit
Yellow people: pillow/cushion/nice chair
Everyone else?: water bottle/cup/flute/poodle (purple)/lint roller
Chainsaw girl that needs socks: Socks
Shaw stared at the board, then back to the class. "Right there. Your job is to come up with them there fancy words, Latin words, that you can use to change your stuff into well....other stuff. No promises they'll work, but understanding the ROOT before you grow flowers is always best, I say. Same for transfiguration. So go on now. Use your text books. Find them fancy words. Shaw will try out the ones I think will work best at the end."
Okay? Shaw looked confused and ate another bite of cup.
Transcribe to Latin those words? Did he look like the Pope to him? Salander stared agape and leaned back. How the heck is he supposed to do that now? He stared at the Green People words and started to look around for the Snakes. Just then one Slythie said this:
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Rain giggled and knudged her with wide eyes.
[B]"He still scares me. Wonder what they put in HIS pumpkin juice.." she whispers.[/B]In a more prompt voice, she called out an answer. " Number one: Malleus Validus
Number two:Arma
Number three:Subvenio Ornamentum Primus
But that is just my guess. You obviously know more so please enlighten us! Sir... I mean Shaw...Yeah..." Rain voiced decrescendoed into a soft whisper. Darn her impulsiveness. "Sorry...out of line...SOO anyone want to partner up?"
Salander left his seat and slipped into the one nearest the girl. Well heck she of the green robes has got the answers, and he's got the partner. Good deal yeah? "Hey there. Salander." he grinned as he introduced himself. "I remember that first one now malleus... that was the hammering spell from Kingsley's transfig class."
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Selina looked down at the list of things they needed to come up with Latin roots for or in this case spells. Her eyes scanned the list and she saw the shield. She had remembered when she was reading the Aenid they had referred to a shield as ferrum which meant iron. No wait that was sword. What had they used for the word shield? And then she remembered the Death of Polites and it came to her. "Okay Gryffindors! Look the Latin for shield is scutum and the latin verb to change is cambriar. So we can say Cambrair Scutum! Or we could conjugate it, but this sounds better."
Vince came out of his weird trance induced by Shaw to find a little confused first year looking for a fellow Slytherin. Oh, God, meeting new people. This day gets better and better. "Er, do you know what we're doing? I'm completely lost..." She didn't seem too bad.
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Rain hopped up and down.
"Hey darling! I'm a Slythie too!"
Rain knew they both probably would epically fail at this but fun was needed in this confusion.
"Any idea what were doing?" She breathed.
Peyton smiled at the two that approached her. They seemed lost.
Great. Just. Great.
She had no clue as to what Shaw was trying to teach them. Oh, he was going to be receiving an ANGRY letter from her daddy. "Sorry guys," she said her smile turning upside down. "I'm confused." she said. This was horrible.
Mom says I have no sense of direction, so I packed my bags and right.
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Originally Posted by Ashwinder
...oh man, was she ever lost. It just goes to show that you shouldn't look at your shoes, because she'd done that and suddenly people were yelling house names and English words and non-English words and some girl was using the chainsaw. Hateya sort of clutched her wand to herself, at least knowing enough that she needed it for what they were doing. Probably.
Wait, he'd said something about a textbook, hadn't he? She grabbed that too, looking around with wide eyes as people kept shouting.
"Er..." Should she just go for Team Other?
Oakey found the one girl that Shaw had squished to the ground, earlier and noticed she was just as lost as he was She was a Ravenclaw too.Those guys are smarties. Hey umm, Wanna make up our own team. We can be TEAM GRAVITY COWS.
I'm just one of those pretty little liars... | | I'm held down in this starless city...
Oh no, he didn't. This was noooot good.
"Shaw?" Helena asked, looking at the man. "I wanted a more comfortable chair, and that's written at the yellow group. Does that put me in that group? Because I'm a Slytherin." Yup, totally Slytherin. Even though she might not be as Slytherin...ish as she was supposed to be... she was still a Slytherin. "... green?" She added quickly, but almost whispering that part.
Oakey found the one girl that Shaw had squished to the ground, earlier and noticed she was just as lost as he was She was a Ravenclaw too.Those guys are smarties. Hey umm, Wanna make up our own team. We can be TEAM GRAVITY COWS.
Hateya really had no idea who this boy was, but he was offering to be partners and that was a good... thing...
"Gravity cows are evil," she told him. "You have to wear steel-toed boots and use chainsaws on them."
That was pretty much the extent of her learning so far in Transfiguration.
"But yes, I'll be on your team. It needs another name though."
"Shaw?" Helena asked, looking at the man. "I wanted a more comfortable chair, and that's written at the yellow group. Does that put me in that group? Because I'm a Slytherin." Yup, totally Slytherin. Even though she might not be as Slytherin...ish as she was supposed to be... she was still a Slytherin. "... green?" She added quickly, but almost whispering that part.
Samira was so confused. So....confused. Her eyes immediately landed on her Slythie friend, Helena. Samira swiftly moved over and stood next to her. She would rather work with Helena than a whole big group of people. She just hoped Helena knew what to do...
Mom says I have no sense of direction, so I packed my bags and right.
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Originally Posted by Ashwinder
Hateya really had no idea who this boy was, but he was offering to be partners and that was a good... thing...
"Gravity cows are evil," she told him. "You have to wear steel-toed boots and use chainsaws on them."
That was pretty much the extent of her learning so far in Transfiguration.
"But yes, I'll be on your team. It needs another name though."
Then what do you recommend we call our team? He asked her. sitting down in the desk next to her and turning it to face in her direction. My name's Oakey by the way, and the team name should be something catchy. Don't you think?
They got make up their own spells! That was wicked awesome!
Shaw probably had no way of knowing that it was one of the things she was contemplating making a career of, but either way the result was the same. Time to experiment!
Journal now out and quill at the ready, Ivory scribbled down the different Latin terms she could remember pertaining to earmuffs, watches, sunglasses and masks.
Spying the Shaw not too far away currently making an L shape with his bicep, Ivory piped up with her thoughts on subject thus far.
With a small smile, she cleared her throat for a second before putting in her two knuts."I believe since 'Auris' is literally Latin for ear, that it would be a good place to start on the ear muff transfiguration incantation." Looking down at her notes for a second, her eyebrows knitted together in thought as she bit the tip of her tongue. "Perhaps in conjunction with 'Theca' meaning 'covering' since one would concentrate the intent on earmuffs and not earplugs." A little more selfconfident now the Ravenclaw prefect found herself talking more enthusiastically as she went on. "Or possibly instead with 'foveo' meaning 'to keep warm'. Or even," she added with an excited laugh."All together to make sure the right intent got across."
Her mind jumping to the next object, she continued. "Whereas for transfiguring sunglasses, one could easily use 'umbra' meaning shade and 'oculus' the Latin word for eyes." Almost unconsciously, her head nodded. "Oooh and for a mask, os meaning face could possibly be combined with dissimulo. The latin word for disguise."
Ending with a small woosh of a sigh, the 5th year smiled sheepishly. At the very least she'd shown her excitement on the subject. Now all she had to come up with were wand motions since she was pretty sure she had the watch thing down pat from Kingsley's classes.
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