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Originally Posted by
Shaw 
"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off.
"Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters.
S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again.
"What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???" First of all, who would want to be callled Shaw??
Second of all. Is he crazy?? Is this guy totally crazy?? What...what...what does he think he's doing bring
this kind of stuff in class to show everyone?? It's totally dangerous and scary!! But Savannah didn't complain, she just kept her thoughts to herself.
"Chainsaw is good for cutting things like wood." Savannah tried not to imagine what it would feel like to hold a chainsaw.
"I saw one of my muggle neighbor using one of those to cut firewood." She answered.
"No sir, I do not know why you changed the desk into a chainsaw." Odd question. "We're here because we're here to learn transfiguration-" Duh.
"-and transfiguration is turning a thing into another?" It's only half a question. Savannah knew perfectly what transfiguration is, but putting it into words is totally a different matter.
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Originally Posted by
Shaw
Shaw took a seat in the floor, cross legged, with the chainsaw sitting in front of him. "You all got the gist of transfiguration, I reckon. You got one thing, frim-fram-froom, then you gotta 'nother thing. You take one thing you have - you make it into something you need. I needed a chainsaw to put my name on the board so I turned the desk into a chainsaw."
Logical, that was. "But you all don't need chainsaws like I do. What's something you oftentimes finding yourself NEEDING but not HAVING? And don't say women, 'cause that is a whole OTHER issue."
"Think about it then you can come up to the board and write down what you NEED today in class but don't have."
In the meantime, Shaw laid down flat on his back and stared without blinking up at the ceiling.
Needing but not having? A lot! Savannah slowly walked up to the board and took a chalk. What does she need but not have in class. Well, Savannah doesn't really forget things to take to class. She have her textbook, her quills, parchments, wand, inkbottle-wait, does she??
Savannah slowly wrote on the board:
Inkbottle
Then, looking up and saw everyone else wrote things completely different. Like friends, family, and things like that. Savannah thought for a moment and wrote:
Company