YES!

They were going to play with use the HUGE knife now. Maybe Marie would be able to cut the table in half so she could move her half away from Destiny. That would teach Lawson not to make her sit where she didn't want to sit.

Rats! They had to use the middle box or whatever it was called. How was she suppose to cut the table using that thing? It's like Lawson was making them use it on purpose, you know so she couldn't get away from Destiny.

She put her piece of wood in the box thing and started to cut it. This was going to take forever doing it this way. She was so glad she was not a muggle and was able to use magic... well except in this class.

She kept moving the saw thing back and forth hoping the blasted board would break into two pieces already when she noticed Destiny waving her saw in the air.

WHAT!

Cut people in half!

Marie seen the way Destiny was looking at her when she said that. Her friend was definatly losing her mind there if she thought Marie was going to let her use that saw on her. "Don't even think about it Destiny. You bring that thing anywhere near me and you will regret it!" she growled at her friend.

"Professor Mean Lawson, I want to move. It is NOT safe for me to be sitting here. I really think you need to let me sit waaaaay over there, as faaaaaar away as I can get from... HER!" she said pointing to her crazy saw waving friend. Pffft, friend... yeah right.

Lawson had to see now that her life was in danger... and it was all HIS fault. If he wouldn't have tied them together then Marie and Destiny would NOT be ready to kill each other now.

ViCToooryYYYYYY!

With a quite satisfied smile on her face, Miranda inspected the rather destroyed end of the piece of wood. But, she, unlike the others, had now TWO pieces instead of one long... So, ha!

...

Crap.
Miranda slumped her shoulders at the sound of Lawsons voice...LOUD voice. Sighing she turned to him and recieved a not-so-nice reprimand...again, and she was a bit surprised at the way the Professor snatched the hammer from her hand. Whoa.

What's the matter?! Pfffffffffffft. Again, she looked like a sulky little kid. Seriously, what was up with these questions? Ofcourse she didn't like him screaming, it was kind of annoying...and LOUD. Pfffft. She narrowed her eyes, putting the piece of wood on the table, ready to say something back but she pursed her lips and crossed her arms on her chest. Dangit. Once more, as he stared at her, the Captain blinked alot and tried to not look at the man. But yeah, difficult, he was RIGHT THERE.

But the next thing Mr Lawson said, made her gape at the man, like...what!? "Five points!?" Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? She had done the job. Her hand gestured towards the piece of wood. "But, sir-"
Shuddup! Gah! She REALLY didn't need to be missing out on... Quidditch for this. This.... this, stupid class. STUPID!

Clenching her jaw, Miranda waited for the Professor to walk off.
Could they like...move on now? Tick tock tick tock...

Selena was quite nervous at this part. What if you didn't trust yourself with the saw. She had a huge temptation to run around with it or else chop off something. Namely someone's head. She sighed before following the professor's example. Weeeh. The wood was saw into 2~

Saw the piece of wood?

That was something she hadn't done before.Not surprisingly her dad hadn't trusted with a saw whenever she helped him at home.Couldn't blame him.But she was determind to be careful, and the mitre box would help - hopefully.

Getting a fresh bit of wood, Sarah positioned it in the box and picked up the nearby saw."This should be...interesting." All she had to do was cut it in two.oooh that rhymed Getting the saw in a good grip in her right hand, Sarah placed the other on the mitre box and wood, to keep it steady - and then she started to saw...

EeeeeEeeeEEEEEeeeeeEEEeeeeee

Shuddering as the noise set her teeth off, Sarah stopped for a second to re-adjust her grip...But then she couldn't get the saw to move again. "Urrrrr, ohhh crap." Tug, tug, tuuuuuuuugggggg. It just wouldn't budge either forward or back, and she was now grunting with the effort.She was just about to turn around and put her hand in the air, asking for help, when the most awful bellowing came from the other side of the room - again.Ohhh no, not Miranda...

Closing her eyes, Sarah turned before she opened them to see Professor Lawson speaking to her friend.It didn't look or sound good.POINTS?! He'd taken points?! Was Miranda nuts?? Staring in disbelief, Sarah heard the handle of her own saw TWAAAAANNNNGGGGG as she let it go from her grasp.Blinking at the Captain as Lawson stared at her, Sarah tried to get her attention using her facial expressions.Sign language of sorts was needed here - point, YOU...thumb at chest, ME...clap fingers together, TALK....point at door, OUTSIDE....She couldn't think what to do for after though, so left it at that.Screwing up her face in a frown, Sarah then turned back to her own wood, unsure if she should ask for any help or not.

But the darn thing wasn't going to move, was it? Hand in the air. "Urrrr, Professor Lawson? My saw is stuck in the wood.I can't move it either way.How do I pull it out?" Because, like, that was essential for her to carry on here.

Alex looked up at the Professor yelled..again..at the same person no less. Seriously what was this mysterious person doing? Besides making noises that could make someone deaf. She glanced down at her two pieces of wood, before glancing around could they move on now? she asked in her head.

Sidney watches Celadine pull her nail out with the other side of the hammer. Sid looks at the other side closely. It's the strangest thing she's ever seen sort of a "V" shaped thing. Sidney decides if Cela used it to remove her nail then it must be the right thing to do. Sid pulls the old nail out and finds a new one. She holds it tightly in her left hand and places it on top of the board. Sidney places her hammer over the nail in what she thinks should be the center. She gives the nail a slight tap with the hammer and continues until the nail is about a quarter of the way in. Sidney lets go of the nail and hits it hard. Remarkably the nail starts going in. She continues until the nail is flat with the board. The top of the nail is still not perfectly flat, but its not bad.

Sawing a piece of wood... right...

Errrr...

Jake hadn't really been watching... sooooo...

Blinking around at everyone, Jake shrugged to himself and looked down at the wood, raising his arms with a big ol' saw in them ready to swing it down like a sword (and MAKING SURE that it touched NOBODY ELSE so that they WOULD NOT GET HURT). True, he was brought up as a muggle. But he had no common sense.

At all.

And since Miranda had been shouted at, Jake would be fine.

"Is thhhis right ssssir?" the boy called out, looking over at the man before preparing to whoosh the saw'd down. He was lost on the whole mitre box thang.

Theo smiled back and wondered how big a "chainsaw" was and pictured the chains from the swings at the play ground he remembered in the town square back home. "Maybe there some way of making them pointy so they could cut things bigger.....like a tree or something," he thought. "I wonder if we're gonna get a chance to do any big cutting?" he was about to ask when the Professor responded quickly,

Theo slumped back in his seat slightly dejected "oh well......that would have been a bit too much for some of these kids" he thought, as he looked over towards the girl who was still trying to whack her board and nails into the next demension.

And now they were sawing. Arya was tempted to just fixate her piece of wood to the holder thingy, what ever it was called she had been daydreaming and missed that part. The only thing that stoped her was the fact that it was muggle studies and she was pretty sure Lawson would notice if her board wasn't moving while she was sawing. And two, that her house had already lost five points and she wasn't about to make it ten.

So intead she placed her board into the....board holder, she picked up her saw and eyed it warily. More cutting, she wasn't up for more cutting. So instead she just layed her saw between one of the slots and let it rock back and forth until they were going to move on to the next step.

*giggles* "Ok, Professor, thank you...I´ll try to calm down and do my job" She said, smiling. Then she added "Saw, right...what did I said? Raw? haha my bad XD"

Kate took the saw one more time, with more confidence, and placed the wood in the mitre box...

SHRAK...SHRAK...SHRAK...the wood is spliting i two....

URGH.

Xylon had no idea HOW to use these muggle tools. But that wasn't the problem. The problem was that he didn't want to use them. He eyed the nail for the longest time before finally picking up the hammer and tapping it thrice. Hey that was easy!!

Half a second later he realized his nail was completely bent out of shape and he was tapping his piece of wood.

Oh.

He tried again and this time, managed to get a nail in. Shaking his head, Xylon decided that was all he could do for now. He didn't need any more practice because in his opinion, he was NEVER going to use these nails. Why bother when you could simply use a sticking charm? Seriously muggles had such bothersome little ways.

And now he had to use the saw thingy.

Great.

Xylon wondered if he could sneak out of this class. The door wasn't that far away. But Professor Lawson was paying everyone too much attention. Trying not to sigh, Xylon picked up the saw and.......... did nothing with it. Then he tried to place it, side-down, in the mitre box. Of course the saw didn't fit in that way so he just wedged it in, half inside the mitre box and half outside. Pokey thingy.

HOW did this work again?

Lawson rolled his eyes at Destiny, “That is an illusion that muggle magicians do Destiny. They don’t really cut people in half and so no, we won’t be cutting people in half. Just the wood thank you.” He looked down at her piece of wood and then back to the third year, “Which you haven’t completed yet.”

Oh boy!

It was turning out to be one of those days. Lawson continued to smile at the Hufflepuff, “Well that’s all well and good Simon but today we are using a hand saw okay. Humour me alright?”

He took a deep breath and began to count in his head.

One.

Stepping up beside Evelyn, Lawson scratched the back of his head as he looked down at the saw that the Slytherin was holding and then back to her face.

“Tell me Evelyn what is wrong with this picture?” he asked pointing at her saw.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

“Fine. Fine. Move away from her then.” Lawson could start to feel his patience running out as he looked around the room as to where he could put the girl.

He turned back to Marie and there was a hint of a smirk on his face. “There is vacant table next to Miranda. Why don’t you go and sit over there.”

HA!

If she thought sitting next to Destiny was bad wait until she sits beside “The Destroyer.’


"But what, Miranda?”

He raised an eyebrow at her, just daring the girl to whine to him about the loss of points. Didn’t she realise that she could have injured herself or someone else in the class with her craziness.

And here he had thought this class was a good idea.

Six.

Seven.

Eight.

Lawson closed his eyes briefly and then opened them as he walked over to Sarah’s worktable. “Put your weight onto the mitre box to hold it down and then pull the saw up, handle first so that it comes up on an angle.”

Oh bloody hell!!

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” he yelled across the room and then quickly hurried over to the Hufflepuff’s table. “That’s not right. Put the saw down.”

Nine.

Ten.

Nope the counting did not work at all and the man gripped his hair with his hands and decided to chuck a spaz.

“For the love of Merlin, what is wrong with everyone today?”

He held up a hand before anyone of them could speak, quite frankly he did not want to know.

“Most of you are driving me INSANE.” He looked to Miranda first, “One of you wants to see if a hammer works just as well as a beaters bat.” He then turned to look at Destiny, “And another who wants to see if she can cut her friend in half.” Lawson then turned to look at Jake, “Someone who seems to think he is King Arthur and looks as though he is about to slay some dragon.” His eyes then moved to Marie, “And let’s not forget the person who just can’t seem to sit in one place for longer than five minutes.”

He took another deep breath and counted to ten once again. It wasn’t helping at all but he could pretend.

"Now listen to me all of you. These tools we are using can be dangerous if not used correctly and can cause some serious injuries." He glanced at Miranda as she said this. "I am going to demonstrate this one more time and I want you all to pay ATTENTION."

Moving behind his desk once again he picked up the mitre box. "Okay firstly place the mitre box onto your table then place your piece of wood inside the mitre box. Using your non dominant hand place it on the wood and apply pressure to keep the wood in place. Once you have done that, take your saw and slip it into one of the grooves. The teeth of the blade is what cuts the wood so that side should be on the bottom." He looked at Evelyn as he said this. "Like this.

"Now use a push/pull action while applying downward pressure to cut into your wood. Do you think you can all handle that?"

Oooooooooooooh, she SOooo wanted to answer. BUTTTT, she kept her mouth shut. Still looking like a five year old, her arms crossed, she waited once more for the Professor to walk off to...help someone else.

Blah. She didn't need this.
Her dad was always doing something muggle-ish. He repaired their broomshed over the summer, he could teach her how to do this stuff. Pfft.

Having turned her head away from Mr Lawson, she noticed Sarah over by a table and frowned. What...was she doing? Sign language?? Squinting, Miranda tried to decipher whatever her hands were doing. Point... me? She put a hand to her chest in a questioningly manner. Oh. There was the thumb pointing at Sarah's own chest. Ah... she saw where this was going. Yeah, the puppet looking hand gave it away, hehe.

She wanted to talk. Shifty eyes.
Slowly, Miranda nodded...but she was really thinking of an exit strategy. Crap. Hehe.

And there was the Professor, walking off helping people. And Jakers.
Oooh. An amused smile spread on her lips, seeing the wild manner of the boy. And she thought she was the only one getting yelled at.

Oh! A QUESTION!
Just about to open her mouth to answer, Miranda held her breath, seeing Mr Lawson looking like was about to...throw a hissy fit.
And now he was looking at her again. Insane? Pffft, was that directed at HER? Sigh. Obviously... Hehe, beaters bat! Snort. That was funny. And kind of true - now that Professor Lawson mentioned it, she might even try it out.

So, he thought she was insane?
She'd give him insane...

The sudden shout made Jake start in surprise, and the boy looked wide-eyed at Lawson, before slowwwwwwly lowering the sword onto the wood.

And then... bahahaha. It was quite funny when Lawson lost it and it wasn't totally directed at him.

"A king? C-c-cool!" the boy smiled, nodding his head, impressed. Though... "I wwwouldn't ssslay a dragon though sssir," Jake pointed out. Yeah. He wouldn't hurt an animal.

Ermm... yeah. Better shut up.

Finally doing as he was told, Jake put the saw on top of the wood and gently moved it back and forth. He wasn't applying downward pressure so it wasn't sawing... but hey, it moved. "Ha! This is wwwwell easy!"

But... he couldn't help but repeated his former action in small movements. Tap tap tap. "This wwworks better though."

There were chips and splinters in the wood and everything now.

What was wrong with the picture?

Frowning, Evelyn looked down at the saw and mitre box, seriously not knowing what he was talking about. For one, the lack of sleep the night before was affecting her mind at the moment, so it was a bit difficult to process what was actually wrong, and two...she'd never used a saw before. And with the lack of sleep, had already forgotten the demonstration the professor had done.

Letting go of the saw, since it would stay in the mitre box anyways, she went down to eye level with the thing, looking for any sign as to what she was...doing..

wrong...

Ohhhh. Those spiky things on the saw were supposed to be the cutting thing for the wood right? Now, looking at it like this, it looked like a big knife. And in cooking, the spiky side always cut.

But cutting was not going to happen.

Jumping in surprise, the Slytherin almost toppled off her seat from the yell that issued from the Professor. Jeez! Give the girl a warning next time!

A bit worried, and interested, that maybe someone had cut off their finger or something, Evelyn sat up straight as far as her back would let her so she could see the gruesome sight! But no, there were no gruesome sights. Or at least, not the one she was looking for. All she could see was Mr. Stutters.

And HEAR the Professor quite loud and clear. Was he, like...breaking down or something? The third year had never heard of a Professor having a tantrum in a class before. Unless you count Lord Borr, but he always spazzed out over everything that didn't involve him, so he didn't count.

Staring wide eyed at the Professor since, well, he was not himself at the moment, Evelyn leaned over to Destiny as she watched the demonstration again that Lawson was doing of how to cut the wood with the saw. "I told you muggles were crazy. Even the class if making Lawson go mental." she whispered as she slowly flipped the saw around so the right part would be cutting the wood.

"But Professor they are great to use." Simon smiled. "It would save time." Simon laughed as he looked at the Professor." Simon didn't want to Humour the Professor, he wanted to do it free hand. "But it's..." He started then stoped and counted too 10 before putting the wood in the Mitre box. "Okay then, if I really must." And with that he got his saw and started to saw as fast as he could thought the wood, within a few minutes he had done it. "See that was easy." Simon smiled.

What was up with Lawson and the very obvious eye roll? Destiny had asked a simple question, and he wants to get all snippy? Pfft, to you Professor.

His eye roll did not stop her from listening to his answer though. As she listened, she decided to roll her eyes at him. See how he likes it. she thought, as a frown crossed her face. She was VERY displeased that they weren't able to cut people in half this lesson, and facing Marie, she gave her friend a glare that told her how lucky she was. "Fine. No cutting people." He didn't mention cutting Professor's though.

They were NOT people.

Smirking as Marie was able to leave, Destiny placed her saw back into one of the grooves and held the board in place.

Push and pull.

Merlin!

Lawson was ripping out his hair..again.

The last time he did that in front of Destiny, he had tied her to Marie. That was not going to happen today! Moving her hands off the saw and the box, she placed them under the table out of eyesight from Lawson. He was not using his dirty tricks on her again.

As a question was asked, she opened her mouth to answer. She knew what was wrong with everyone, she did! She was going to start naming the flaws in the people around her, when Lawson raised his hand. She snapped her mouth shut knowing that he did not want an actual answer to that. Too bad, she was going to start on him first. Like..how he should really count to ten before exploding on people.

Placing her hands back on the saw and box thing, since the man had not pulled his wand out yet, she snorted as he said SOME of them were driving him insane..Surely he wasn't talking about..oh, he was. He was talking about Destiny. As he went on with his YELLING and demonstrating again, she started to move the saw in the push and pull motion again. Was she imagining she was sawing him in half?

Maybe.

She jumped slightly as Evelyn whispered, since she had expected more yelling to come her way. Snickering at what her friend said, she glanced up at the crazy, insane Professor. "It's that bald spot of his. Making him freak out." she whispered back, just as her board was cut in half.

"I DID IT!"

And she still had all her fingers.

Kate did as Professor Lawson said but...she suddenly had a big dude, so she raised her hand "Professor, sorry to bother you but....wouldn´t the mitre box split in two also, if we can saw the wood...why the saw wouldn´t cut the mitre box? I know it´s a stupid question...but I can´t get that thought out of my head..." *blink blink* big blush....

And THIS was why wizards and muggles can't live in the same world. And also why she was now considering quitting Muggle Studies. Wizards don't know how to do anything without magic! She would know! And these...these were SAWS and stuff. DANGEROUS stuff. And people who didn't know how to use them properly and get all dangerous. Shudder.

She just took the wood, and began sawing it in half. Hum dee dum. Just minding her own business- and safety- and staying far away from anyone dangerous looking. Yup.

Chris had thought he had done it correctly before but the Professor obviously wanted them to do it again. He was actually laughing in his head at how funny Miranda and Jake were so far in this class but all happy thoughts had left the Head Boy when Professor Lawson began to shout at them.

He was going to lose it wasn't he? Chris watched with wide eyes, as the Professor's breathing was becoming heavier, oh my gosh! Was he having a heart attack?! All of their lack of muggle manual tools knowledge was killing the guy!!!

Oh he calmed down. False alarm. Chris watched closely as Professor Lawson showed them again how to place the mitre box over the wood and to cut it properly. Chris was not use to tools like this but he would try again anyways.

Picking up the mitre box once again, he placed it over top of the wood and layed his left hand on it to keep it pressured down. Now using his right hand, the Gryffindor picked up the saw, and gently put it in one of the grooves over the wood and began to do the motion described to them.

Zomg!!!! It was working. Oh my gosh, he was cutting wood in half!!! After a few minutes of cutting the wood fell into two pieces. A muggle probably would have taken half th etime he had, but Chris was still proud of himself.

Zane grabbed his saw and laughed as the Professor kept yelling at the same people. He looked down and saw that his wood was cut into a few pieces, since he like using the saw anyway, he kind of went overboard. "Oops." he said to himself.

Alex glanced around what was this Professor's issue today? Well despite Evelyn was using her saw upside down, another had used her hammer to break the wood, one wanted to move around, and one wanted to be an idiot and not use the mitre box. Well that explains it, Alex thought rolling her eyes. She had already cut her wood..the first time and she was pureblood for crying out loud.

Cela had finished cutting her bit of wood, not that she'd found it easy but it was done. She watched the professor get all worked up, her eyes big and liquid as she followed him around the room, occassionally they flickered to whoever it was the professor happened to be focused on until finally, after he repeated his instructions, Celandine raised her hand.

"Professor?" She paused, "Do you need hugs?"

He really looked like he need hugs.

Patroclus sat stone still in his seat. Poor Professor Lawson seemed to be at his wits end, and Patroclus didn't want to cause him anymore anxiety. He had successful sliced his wood, so he was content to watch the others. Patroclus could understand the Professor frustration, but after all this was worlds away from the way the magically children had been brought up.
He could help but smile at some of the other students sawing methods.

William had sat quietly, watching as Lawson got more frustrated every second. He was glad Ari wasn't in the room she'd be screaming more than he was, sharing his emotions such as her gift proclaimed. Glancing around the room he winced sympathetically as Lawson finally shouted - loudly. Not making it look like he'd been effected, even though he had been he hesitatingly put up his hand.

"Sir, would you like a chocolate frog? You help me with my hand, I'd like to help you." He asked in a kind voice. He had enough of them in his bag.