Originally Posted by Felixir

Okay so there were manners towards other students and then there was trying not to tick off a professor. At Lafay's words, Tobias was kind of jolted into talking. He took the couple of steps forward which would put him in line with the other girl and spoke.

"I had a couple of things to ask you about, Professor," he began, and faltered ever so slightly remembering that she didn't have all day. "I'll try to be quick."

Wow this felt like a bad idea.

"The first thing was about last term? With the-" he didn't say 'ice cream' because Tobias hated even the sound of the word these days "-syrup? At least I'm pretty sure it was the syrup. Just that... it made everyone sad last year, and now this year nobody is quite as happy and energetic about last year. I was wondering..." he twisted his expression a little. Would she understand quite why this confused him? "... why did that have to happen? Why couldn't everyone have stayed happy and then just not been sad anymore?"

Was that a very Hufflepuff thing to say? Toby kind of hoped so. But he genuinely couldn't see a problem with everyone staying happy. Tobias NEVER let himself be sad unless dementors were around and he had no choice and couldn't think of any downside to that. At all. None.

He decided to wait for an answer before asking his next question.