SPOILER!!: Kurumi
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sweetpinkpixie 
Jotting down a few notes and underlining a thing here and there, Kurumi set her quill down and went to the front to grab a pieace of wood and was about to return to her seat when another small question crossed her mind. "Professor, is there a noticeable difference between the two methods? Using the incantation as opposed to doing it by hand I mean." Using magic as opposed to doing it by hand. Seemed like there might be something different.
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Finishing up her conversation with Professor Jenkins, Kurumi returned to her seat and set her piece of wood on the table. Now...which rune did she carve? Forget which method she was going to use, she needed to figure out which rune first. Opening up her textbook, Kurumi flipped through the pages looking for something that could help her when her eyes fell on a particular rune and suddenly the prefect realized that she didn't want to make a rune for herself...but for someone else. She would just figure out how to make them accept it later.
"Sowilo..." she whispered to herself as she read over its meaning. Yep. This would do.
Now...which method to use? She had used Intaglio during her second year and performed a few other carving methods before, but using a gorging tool was a little foreign to her. That pretty much decided it. The entire point of school was challenging yourself and trying out new things so that you could learn after all.
Using her quill first, Kurumi drew a very light drawing of the run on the piece of wood before picking up her tool and setting it against the wood. Against the grain, right?
Oliver scratched his chin as he contemplated the Prefect's question.
"No. I don't think so. It's more of a personal thing for me. I believe the Runes' magic works better if it's pure." Sometimes it was hard to explain this to people.
"Does that make sense?" SPOILER!!: Lily
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Hermione Lily Potter
As the professor gave the go ahead to come get some wood and a tool, Lily got up and went up to the front of the room, grabbing a block of wood and a tool before returning to her seat. Once she had returned to her seat, Lily got a question. Raising her hand to get help from the professor, she waited until he got over to her seat before asking. "Um.. Does it matter which rune we decide to practice carving out? And is there any technique that you suggest we use while carving?" Lily figured she had to ask, since she didn't want to get in trouble and also had never carved anything before.
He gave the Ravenclaw a warm smile.
"You can choose whatever rune you like." Actually he preferred if they practiced doing more than just one rune but it was okay if they only wanted to do one. Oliver held up the
gouge tool.
"The blade is quite sharp so watch your fingers. You just need to run it along the wood. The tool will carve the shape out that you direct it to with your hand."
Oliver walked amongst the students as they practiced and he was pleased to see the good work that they were doing.
"Nice work all of you." he said as moved back to his desk.
"There is another stage to making a rune set but we'll go over that next class. Also I am going to show you how to do magic with runes." So perhaps they might be a little more enthusiastic next lesson.
"If you wish to keep practicing then by all means you may do so, otherwise class is over. I'll post homework on the noticeboard later."