No? That failed.

Sighing, Evelyn reached over to grab her bag and place it on her desk, fishing out her notebook, quill and ink while glancing over to Sierra. "Because some Slytherin thought they needed it." she muttered, finally finding her quill. Why wasn't it in the place it was supposed to be!? Her bag was organized like no other! So why wasn't it in that specific pocket?

And now with her notebook and ink neatly placed in front of her, she was all ready to do this assignment! Or in other words...make Sierra think of stuff while she wrote it down.

Or...




Or they could just do what Sierra did.

Except that was her problem in the first place. Salander and his group were too far away! Like...a row and a half. Pfft, they should scoot closer. Snickering quietly after seeing Sierra's note, the sixth year Slytherin leaned her head against the palm of her hand while writing down her name and date on the page.

Hmmm yea, Salander should move over here. Him and the Slythie group.

'Turning stuff into things on the board... That spell makes a helmet!' Rose grinned 'Would you like to join us! Oh, my name's Rose!'

Fee listend to the boy next to her and nodded at him,his spells ounded kinda good.The blonde had no idea why she found this so hard to do but something just didnt click.Looking trough her text book the girl sighed a little but finally found something.It sounded kinda good so the blonde would go for it."Aves",the blonde whispered to herself looking trough the book some more.Mhh...what could match?It didnt sound like spell yet.

Almost at the end of the book the girl sighed again,daamn making up own spells was much hearder than she would have imagined.As the Slytherin was about to give up she found something."Oh we could use Aves verto",she said,"it turns a bird into a rat."Well at least it should.

Cleo walked into the classroom and walked straight towards Ember and Rose " hey y'all how are you doing? may i sit wiv you"

'Yeah, sure!' Rose said motioning to a seat beside them. 'What do you think of Shaw? I think he's pretty awesome! Not like normal teachers...'

Suddenly their group grew in all sorts of numbers, and Hateya found herself pouring through her textbook and getting more lost. It was good that Oakey knew the Latin words he did, but she sure didn't know any. Then they were trying to come up with a spell to Transfigure a purple dog? And wand motions to go along with it?

But she didn't know any wand motions; she'd never cast a spell! Even if the book said what wand motions to use for a similar spell, she didn't know what they looked like. A visual learner, was Hateya.

"Swish and flick?" she muttered, looking at one of the listed spells. "What does that even look like?"

Seeing that most of the other students had partners already, Emerald decided to work alone. Taking out her notebook she tried to remember as much Latin as possible (she kept getting it confused with Greek). Once she thought of enough roots and words, she wrote:
--Like she needed that one--
Hopefully these will work, she thought, now for the wand movements.

Zara watched in silence as her fellow Gryffindors began brainstorming. Well, she also watched as her Latin Dictionary was being passed around. Happy for bringing that, she hoped she had contributed something. She said all of the words that she found useful. Now, she waited as Mr. Prefect had said that they'd have to test the spells later.

Glancing over at Kurumi's shoulder, she peeped at the notes. Wow, it was an awful lot. Kurumi really did have a lot of patience. Sighing Zara opened her textbook, hoping to find something. They have already come up with a lot of spell, now all she had to do was contribute some more. And of course, wait until they try it.

" Zara, I could use a patner" Willaim told her. " We can help each other" William said to Zara.

"Sure William. You can join us here," She beckoned for William to join them. Zara was with her fellow Gryffindors like Patroclus, Kurumi, Selina, Tayla, Rose, Nika, and the others.

Chris walked in the classroom and saw some other gryffindors in a group. He walked over and asked," Hey! Can i sit with you guys over here? I am Chris by the way!" Chris loves to transfigure things!

Savannah looked around desperately for a Slytherin partner. Anybody?? "ANYBODY?" Savannah said in kind of a yell-since she's really desperate seeing everybody else got one. She wanted to add please. She wanted to add with cherries on top. Now who wouldn't want a partner with cherries on top?

Rosemary smiled as she got another pencil, "Armatura Verto!" She cast, her Scottish accent peaking again.

"Sure, Chris. Join us." She smiled, as she looked back at those who were planning. "So guys, think we have enough listed? I can't wait to try them." She grinned.

Isobel watched him try the spell. She shrugged when it didn't work. She was pretty sure that was right, maybe he had done something wrong. "I think you have to make a circle motion." She thought that was how she remembered it. Anyway..."What should we try as the wand movement for our spell?"

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Kyle Coppied down the whole list of words - after all being a Ravenclaw she wanted to learn all the spells that worked and didn't.

SPOILER!!: List of Words & "Spells"

Red people: shield/armor/hard hat

Blue people: ear muffs/watch/sunglasses/mask

Green people: mighty hammer/weapon/first aid kit

Yellow people: pillow/cushion/nice chair

Everyone else?: water bottle/cup/flute/poodle (purple)/lint roller

Chainsaw girl that needs socks: Socks

Looking up to Shaw she began writing out bottle and the possible root words she could use from it. Think. Think. Think. Bott- Bott- Butticula she remembered from when her father had made her take Latin classes over the summer. Yay for her father that pushed her way way way too hard to learn muggle and magical everythings.

And she knew the root word for water...Aqua after all it meant water in Spanish which was derrived from the Latin or "Romance" Languages.

"Butticula Aquatica" she tried, nothing - that formation didn't work...but she felt she was on the right path.

"Butticula d'Aqua" no, it didn't work. Then she remembered, it wasn't Butticula - that was only one way to say it and that meant more barrels. She sighed, thinking yet again before nearly yelling out the word. "Uter! she blushed as she realized how much attention she had probably drawn to herself.

Pointing her wand in front of her at a paper cup she had "Professor shaw would you think Utter Aqua would be the a good start to a spell to change this paper cup into a water bottle?" She asked excitedly. She would make it work.

Once she got the wording down she'd move on to the movements the second she saw the little cup semi-transform she'd try and move on and get the movement down until she found a bottle infront of her. Still the the word Buttilculaqualus seemed to ring in her ear like it was calling to her.

"Why would you change a paper cup to a water bottle? If you got a cup, just drink from that!"

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Oh no, he didn't. This was noooot good.

"Shaw?" Helena asked, looking at the man. "I wanted a more comfortable chair, and that's written at the yellow group. Does that put me in that group? Because I'm a Slytherin." Yup, totally Slytherin. Even though she might not be as Slytherin...ish as she was supposed to be... she was still a Slytherin. "... green?" She added quickly, but almost whispering that part.

Shaw scratched his stubbled cheeks as that one there talked at him. "No? The list isn't by who asked for what." Last he checked it wasn't anyways. "I grouped them there like that because they made sense. You're supposed to be coming up with possible word combo's for your green group's words."

Right?

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They got make up their own spells! That was wicked awesome!

Shaw probably had no way of knowing that it was one of the things she was contemplating making a career of, but either way the result was the same. Time to experiment!

Journal now out and quill at the ready, Ivory scribbled down the different Latin terms she could remember pertaining to earmuffs, watches, sunglasses and masks.

Spying the Shaw not too far away currently making an L shape with his bicep, Ivory piped up with her thoughts on subject thus far.

With a small smile, she cleared her throat for a second before putting in her two knuts."I believe since 'Auris' is literally Latin for ear, that it would be a good place to start on the ear muff transfiguration incantation." Looking down at her notes for a second, her eyebrows knitted together in thought as she bit the tip of her tongue. "Perhaps in conjunction with 'Theca' meaning 'covering' since one would concentrate the intent on earmuffs and not earplugs." A little more selfconfident now the Ravenclaw prefect found herself talking more enthusiastically as she went on. "Or possibly instead with 'foveo' meaning 'to keep warm'. Or even," she added with an excited laugh."All together to make sure the right intent got across."

Her mind jumping to the next object, she continued. "Whereas for transfiguring sunglasses, one could easily use 'umbra' meaning shade and 'oculus' the Latin word for eyes." Almost unconsciously, her head nodded. "Oooh and for a mask, os meaning face could possibly be combined with dissimulo. The latin word for disguise."

Ending with a small woosh of a sigh, the 5th year smiled sheepishly. At the very least she'd shown her excitement on the subject. Now all she had to come up with were wand motions since she was pretty sure she had the watch thing down pat from Kingsley's classes.

"Write that down," Shaw encouraged. "You got the eyes for this, blue one. You and those ones," Shaw pointed to the Red Boys that GOT Transfiguration, "could grow up to be professional transfigurationists! Congratulations!"

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Her jaw dropped and she looked at the man. “S-S-S-Shaw?” she squeaked slowly raising her hand. “A-A-Are you h-h-having us build armies to f-f-f-fight against one another?” They WERE dividing into groups and coming up with their own spells and whatnot.

"Me? Shaw?" Shaw was building an army? Good to know. "I'm on Team Shaw."

Which turned out to be her team, so no worries. Shaw continued watching that one, red team, and all its members. The RED ones GOT Transfiguration. Team Shaw.

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Tayla stared with her mouth slightly gaping as Shaw helped the girl write - no, saw the board with the awful chainsaw. She shrugged and answered Shaw's question. "Fera Verto is used to transfigure animals into a water goblet, but I think it can be used to transfigure animals into other objects, too. 'Fera' is Latin for animal or beast. And 'verto' means to turn."

Tayla closed her eyes and covered her ears with her hands. She wished she had gotten earmuffs! As soon as the sound of the chainsaw stopped, she began to work.

Tayla went over to Zara and Nika when she heard them call out the Gryffindors. Tayla didn't mind working alone, but it would be much better to work together this time. And besides, she just wanted to leave her seat up front and head somewhere safer.

"Hi girls," Tayla smiled, sat down beside them, and opened her book. "I think it's important to include 'verto' in the spell, Tayla said, thinking aloud as she scanned her book. Because, well...'verto' means 'turn'...and this spell is for transfiguration."

She looked up from her book and continued. "And maybe this time 'verto' should come first - unlike in 'fera verto'. 'Fera' means animal, so the spell was turning an animal in to something...this time...the spell could be...turning something in to - so that's 'verto' - a shield for example - so that can be, according to Latin, 'parma'." She wasn't sure if her classmates understood what she meant - she was a little confused herself, but she raised her hand anyway and decided to give Shaw some suggestions.

"Shaw, how about, 'Verto Galea' or 'Verto Pilleus' for the hard hat? Galea means helmet while pilleus means cap."

"Then, for the shield, 'Verto Parma' and for the armour, 'Verto Armatus'"?

To explain how she came up with the words, Tayla repeated to Shaw what she told Zara and Nika, then she bit her lip, and waited anxiously for Shaw's answer.

"Write those down, too. Yous in the blues need to make Shaw a list, combined list. You got good stuff but some of it is over there," he pointed, "some is over there. Verto is important and I think you are GETTING it. Make a list. Team Shaw has a list."

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Mia raised her eyebrow at the smile she got from the man known only as Shaw. Yeah that couldn't be good. She placed her arms on the desk and rested her chin on them as she watched the antics of her friend Destiny.

The girl had actually come to class wearing that bloody helmet. And now she was wielding a chainsaw. Probably lucky she was wearing that helmet.

And then Shaw started talking again and Mia kinda zoned out. She hated this class. Not because of the strange man teaching it but because it was technically difficult and required quite a lot of concentration which she seriously lacked.

It wasn't until everyone started talking about being in groups that Mia jerked herself back to the present and blinked a few times. Crap!! She didn't want to be in a group so people could see how very inept in this subject she was.

She raised her hand. "Can I work on my own?" As for the whole latin thing...she struggled trying to pronounce a lot of english words.

"I don't know if you can or not."

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"Shaw!" he called to the Man of the Hour, "Could we perhaps have a dumbie in Gryffindor Robes to try out our spells on!?" You never know something may work!

"So," he turned his attention back to the group, "We need wand movements, Rosemary, Christina, Heather and Janet, do you have any ideas of a good wand movement?" he asked of the few girls who seemed a little lost.

Then turning to Kurumi he sumarised some of the spells they had already suggested, "So we have had; 'Verto Galea', 'Verto Pilleus', 'Verto Parma', 'Verto Armatus', 'Gignatis Ferrum', 'Corpus Armatura', 'Corpus Armatura Cassida', 'Cambrair Scutum' and 'Contego' but we need more!"
More they needed, MORE!

"There ain't no dummies on Team Shaw! I'll test your spells out though, you just make 'em up. You got your list ready for me? One of you put your list on the board.TEAM SHAW!"

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Simon just sat there, this lesson was confusing he hoped that the Professor wouldn't mind him just being sat there. "Professor I don't get what your asking us to do." Simon said truthfully, maybe he should try and find a partner but he didn't want to just go ask anyone and was scared incase they told him to go away.

"I know. Team Yellow hasn't got it. Team Shaw has got the getting, but not the Yellow ones." Shaw rubbed his bald head and then stared at the list for yellow people. That was too bad.

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"I'll ask" Serena said before putting her hand up. Hope I don't anger him and get killed by his chainsaw... "Shaw?" she asked "How do we know how to move the wand?"

"I thought I asked you that?"

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" hmmmmmm which gives me alll the more reason to mess with him." Ember turned to the teacher. " SHAWWWWW CAN I BORROW YOUR CHAINSAWWWWWWWWW."

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Rose suddenly felt more like a Gryffindor with Ember around 'Hey, Yeah, can I borrow it too!?' Rose paused 'Wait, what are we gonna do with it?' Rose didn't care as long as it was AWESOME!

"No. I gave it to that girl." Shaw's chainsaw was property of Destiny until she finished.

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Mahahahahahahha!

Now that was just great, wasn't it? Josh thought he would already work on kicking the attackers if they ever got attacked but kicking them together with Shaw should have been awesome! ''Joshua Carter...ooooor just Josh.'' the boy replied the bald man's question with that usual grin on his face ''And that sounds like a perfect plan Shaw. Perhaps we could transfigure their wands into rubber chicken so they would be all 'whoa!'. Most wizards are vulnerable without wands, right? I am not sure if magical wands can be transfigured though. Has anyone ever tried anyway? Y'know, they might be able to attack back with magical rubber chicken''

Riiight. That was possible. Since a non-magical thing was still non-magical when transfigured into something else, perhaps a magical thing would continue to be magical when transfigured. Hmm...ever heard a professor go on about intent? Intent. To answer that question the Gryffindor boy had to think over all the professors he had met so far. Hmm...

''Well...since the intent of using something might be different than the actual use of it would differ. I would say...no. They always do mention how to do it and the use of it, not really the intent.''

"Josh," Shaw tried out the name. His mouth mouthed like he was tasting the name. Tasted good! He missed most of the conversation about chickens. Shaw was committing Josh to memory. "Huh? Oh right. Intent. Intent is as important as them there fancy words. Otherwise, how do you get a water goblet out of an animal? Intent."

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Presley knew she should be paying attention, but she couldn't focus. Shaw she mused. My director for the plays I used to do was called Shaw. She scared the...wits out of me. Not that Presley was scared of most people, but Shaw was a special kind of monster. She felt herself drifting off. Pretending that she hadn't been up all night trying desperately to find a secret passage out, she sat up straight. There were instructions on the board, but the letters seemed to float around. That's when Presley realized just exactly how tired she was. She lifted her arm into the air.
"Sir, I think I may be sick. May I go up to the Hospital Wing?" At least she would be getting out of class if nothing else.

"Yeah, okay."


Shaw put his fingers into his mouth and let out a loud, ear-drum harming whistle. It would have easily gotten the attention of all dogs within a few kilometers, so the students probably heard him too.

"Shaw's back is aching, so we should do some stuff. Team Shaw? And you few blue people that were doing work. Make me a list of your best efforts and bring it up here." Shaw's eyes traveled to a small group of Greenies and he shrugged at them, "If you got something, bring it up, too."

"Team Cow? You have anything?"

"No more work, no more Latin. Bring up what you have."

Alright! She was on Team Shaw. Zara had a smug expression on her face. She turned to Kurumi to see if she'd give the list. "I think Shaw wants the list now." She smiled.

Dropping his quill, Theodore clapped his hands over his ears roughly at the sound of the whistle. Quite the loud one, Shaw was, although the Ravenclaw would never admit it. His grades were at stake, here! Lowering his hands, a smirk formed on his face at the professor's mention of Team Shaw. That included Theo! His eyes skimming his work, Theodore stood up, his chair scraping along the floor loudly. Making his way up to Shaw, slowly and carefully for fear of what he would do, Theodore stopped about two feet away and extended his arm out completely, covering the distance between the professor and himself. "Here you go, uh, Shaw," Theodore attempted to sound nonchalant, his American-accented voice remaining steady as fear momentarily flashed through his eyes.

Just when more people joined the Slytherin group, the discussing and work had been stopped by Shaw. Ahhh, they weren't finished yet! But Jamie was in no position to argue with the crazy professor. So he quickly jotted down the rest of the ideas, or what they had so far, and shuffled his notes together, ready to show Shaw.

SPOILER!!: ideas from Jamie, Aurora and Salander

Mighty hammer:
Validus Malleus
wand movement: jab forwards?

Armour:
Accio Arma

First aid kit:
Medicina Primum Auxilium Verto
Medicina Auxillium Saccus
Medicina Saccus
Auxillum Saccus
Medicina Auxillium

That was an amazing list, even though it was quite incomplete. The only wand movement that was there was Jamie's pathetic idea for a jabbing technique. It would do, though. The third year brought up their list and handed it to Shaw timidly.

Thanks so much" William tols Zara. "What should we do first?" Willaim asked Zara.

Kurumi felt some more tension in her shoulders release when Shaw said that he wasn't building an army...but she wasn't sure she would put it past him. The man HAD just transfigured a chainsaw earlier.

Squeaking in embarrassment, Kurumi turned her attention back to her group and being a good lion scribe.
Kurumi turned her attention back to Selina and nodded before jotting that down next to the appropriate spell. An elaborate 'P'...Kurumi had to giggle softly as they had several spells that made the shapes of letters. She used to do that in her school back in Japan for practicing English. They called it air writing.

Looking down at her list, she frowned a bit when she saw that it was still a bit incomplete in terms of wand movements, but at least they had a good set of spells to show the man.

"I'll go hand this in then," she smiled nervously flicking her gaze back to the man.

Jumping to her feet, and with her right hand clutching her robe's fastener on her chest, she made her way to the front of the room with her group's parchment in the other hand.

She had to bite her tongue to not call the man Professor, which hurt quite a bit, and she handed the parchment to him.

"Here is the work we came up with on Team Shaw," Kurumi said hoping that he wouldn't mind that they hadn't come up with a few wand movements.

Nika beamed at Kurumi's note taking skills and looked at SHAW with a smile. Team Shaw= Success!

"Actually William, Shaw spoke up already. It's done. We just give him our list of spells for Transfiguration." She smiled sheepishly.

"Don't worry Kurumi, I'm sure we did great." She smiled reassuringly at her favorite Gryffie Third year.

YUPYUP. Zara had a wide grin on her face. "Success Team Shaw, hopefully."

Simon looked at Professor Shaw and wondered if he should show him what he had done so far, because at the moment it was a bit weird, he decided against it and put the paper on his desk, he wouldn't go anywhere with it.



Simon wanted to chuck it in the bin it was rubbish he was glad he wasn't going to show the Professor it and if the Professor asked if he had done anything he could say he had tried but failed.

Gavin shrugged. He and his partner hadn't got anywhere. Oh well... He couldn't be good at everything. And he had to admit, this teacher was just so hard to understand. He didn't make sense to Gavin at all. He thought that spells already existed, not that they were supposed to create them.