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Shaw looked at the board to see if she was right.
"Yep! Good eye there Team Cow."
"Yeah? Yeah I think that is exactly what I mean."
"Are they?"
Shaw scratched his head and looked utterly confused by the girl boy Team Shaw writer person thing. "Yeah. Yeah that's them...."
Shaw DUCKED down behind his desk and remained there, hidden and out of sight for a while.
"SHAW. JUST SHAW." Not sir, not professor, not Mister. Hadn't they covered this? It was chainsaw-drawn on the board.
"JUST SHAW."
Were they under attack?! Was that someone leaving or coming in????
"JUST. SHAW."
Only the shine of Shaw's bald head and his eyes shown over the desk. "Team Shaw's got it. Exactly what she said. Good for you. Team Shaw!"
When the coast was clear and Shaw felt reasonably comfortable enough to rejoin his class, he stood and crept out. "So I guess you all see the difference? It's all transfiguration, but all very different. It all takes a different set of skills, different mindset, and different array of items depending on what you're up to."
"Your task today wasn't to make up new spells. You're all about 12 years old or so and Shaw knows you don't know. But it's important to know where spells come from, how they originate. Transfiguration is some of the hardest magic out there and if you don't get them there basics, you won't ever get it. Like Josh and Team Shaw. They GOT it."
Shaw was proud of Team Shaw.
"Some of you might have achieved some of them there magic words though. We might at least get half results, which is half better than no results."
Without further ado, Shaw whipped his wand out and shed his alligator cloak once again. He cast a loud "Verto Canis" at the fallen cloak.
Though the cloak didn't change forms at all, it HAD sprung to life. The cloak barked and yelped and started "jumping" on students that had sat at the front of the room.
Ah Ummm.. It's not Team...Oakey began to say. But he stopped. There was no use, his group was now Team Cow (
how intimidating) Shaw had gotten up and talked a bit more about transfiguring objects and what it meant.
Then came the moment of truth He said Oakey's spell that was written on
the desk the piece of parchment. His cloak didn't change but still acted like a dog. It was funny(Oakey was glad he got up and moved to the back) but the spell Oakey wrote hadn't worked the way he thought it would.
He sank into his chair in disappointment.
What went wrong Shaw? Oakey asked
Why didn't the coat completely change? was it his spell or the wand movement or was it something entirely different?