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Text Cut: Tobyyyyy Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir  Grinning was happening, right at Grayson. What a cool guy.
"Brilliant," Toby replied, all beamy as he kept quickly rotating the hammer in his hand. He looked back at his materials and stopped spinning it, with the hammer-y end pointed down. "I dunno. I think so. So like... everyone has a chance at making one." Even as he spoke, Toby got the nail in place at the bottom of one can and poised the hammer over it. He glanced up. "Tell you what, that means the person listening can have cans over BOTH ears. And it would block out other sounds a little too, so we can really see how well they work. OR we each have an ear can and a mouth can at once, like a proper phone." Ah yes. A proper phone. With all those cans.
And with that... SMACK. Toby brought the hammer down and right onto the nail. One hit was all it needed to make a hole, and soon... SMACK... the other can was sorted too. Nice.
Setting the hammer and nail to one side, Toby picked the cans up to look through each of the holes to see if it had worked well enough, at which point he noticed... the holes in the desk. Um. "Oops." Sorry Moxley.
Ahem. He'd fix that soon. Later. Yep.
It was a little fiddly, but soon Toby had the string threaded through and tied off, and he HAD A PHONE. Sort of. Hopefully.
"Ready when you are, Mr. Whitlock," he said to the Slytherin, holding up both cans connected with the string to prove it. "So now if you trade one end of yours with one end of mine?" And then they could DO THE THING. Dude was smart, man. Grayson was a little in awe of the guy but there was no way in Merlin that he was gonna admit that. Instead, he nodded slowly at Toby's words and proceeded to pick up his own hammer and nail. "That makes a lot of sense, you know." Dude agreed, even if he thought it was kinda a waste for them both to make tin can phones. What was the point, Moxley?
Two ear cans? Er. "Those ideas sound great and all but the first idea means that someone's gonna have to talk into two mouth cans and that's just gonna look freaking weird, man." He wasn't up for looking weird, you know. People taunted things like that. And there was no way in a million years he'd let anyone taunt Toby, unless said person had a death wish. "I think I like the second idea better. A proper phone and all. We could talk and listen at the same time. Much smarter, handsome Hufflepuff." Nods for you, Fuller-Thompson.
And if Toby was gonna get started with the making of the tin can phones then so was he! Didn't wanna be behind and all that. So, positioning the nail in place, the Slytherin started hammering it into the tin can. Why they couldn't just blast a tiny hole in the tin cans using magic, he didn't know. Had Moxley not thought this through? Or did she just wanna make them suffer by doing more work?
Freaking rude, Moxley.
Oops? Grayson, who was about to nail the second tin can, looked up and over at Toby's tin--
LOOOOOOOOOOL! Oh MAN. "You're a dangerous fella, Toby." Lololol, way to lighten the mood of the lesson. Shaking his head, Grayson went back to his second tin can and started nailing it in place. Hole and all that. Then, taking the string, he threaded it through one of the holes, tied a knot inside the can and did the same to the other side. There. All done.
"Ready, yo!" he said, holding out one end of the tin can he had made. Come on, Toby, take it so that he could do some tin can flirting. That was what this was about, after all.
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