Toby had already found himself completely off track from where he'd started, but not intentionally. He'd found his attention easily waning and before long, had wandered off to a bookshelf to look for books around runes. It had started when Airey had mentioned something about the snow taking so long to melt, which for reasons had made Toby think of that Isa rune. He'd missed the discussion about the Book of Mysteria, and anything about protection runes, and become more or less transfixed with looking through the book he now had.

Still musing on all sorts of possibilities, Toby spoke up.

"The protection wards around the school, do they go around the school like a bubble, or do they go miles up into the sky?" ... Uhhhh... "If there are protection wards of c-"

At that point, Tobias had finally looked up and become aware of a bunch of other people who looked pretty absorbed in what they were doing, and surrounding another book. Well, they all looked like they were making more headway than Toby, so he figured he'd try and join the fun research party group.

Not even finishing his sentence, Toby was up again with his runes texts under his arm. He approached the group of kids, all of whom he recognised to some extent, and looked around curiously.

"What? What's happening? I miss something?" He'd probably be better at looking through books with other people than on his own, after all. Very easily drawn off-track, this one. The Hufflepuff peered towards the weird codex thing people were talking about so he could work out what was going on without someone having to go over it all again.