He was cutting it a bit fine, as seemed to be a running theme ever since he'd reached school age, but Toby was finally getting around to his Astronomy homework. It probably didn't help that he'd spent a large portion of the allotted time trying to decide just which option to choose. He wasn't all that creative and had very few nametag decorating ideas, so that wasn't too appealing, and even just the idea of writing an essay at the moment made his head hurt. Which left the option for destruction.

Toby didn't like destroying things, he was more enthralled by those who could create and build and all that. But... he had to admit, even if just to himself, that sometimes destruction could be wonderfully satisfying. But shhhhhhHHHHHHH.

He still had the three bags of yellow mixture he'd picked up at the end of last lesson, and plonked them all in a row on the desk at one of the workstations. Toby had only a very vague idea of what he was going to do here, and figured it would be best to just think things through first.

Mkay. Mhmm. Right.

In a sudden moment of decisiveness, Toby picked up the first of the three bags and held it out flat in the palm of his left hand, and using his right to grab his wand from his pocket. Probably not the safest place to keep it, but ehhh.

"Fingere Elementi!" Toby spoke clearly, enunciating the spell as he jabbed it at the bag of yellow sand stuff in his hand. The spell worked great on his first try, which Toby sort of expected; he'd probably cast this spell more than any other in his life ever ever ever. The Hufflepuff watched as a planet formed above his hand with a loud POP!

"Diminuendo!" Having moved his hand away from beneath the planet, Toby pointed his wand at it again and cast the second spell. SHRINK RAY! In a flash of white light, the yellow decently sized planet got smaller and smaller, until it resembled a teeny tiny floating marble. Toby grinned to himself and was ABOUT to commence stage two of his plan, before noticing that it was... still shrinking.

Uhhhhh... how did he turn this spell off. THAT wasn't supposed to happen.

Doing the smartest thing he could think of at that moment, Toby dropped his wand rather than attempt to point it away from the planet or cancel the spell. But... too late. The planet was now either shrunken out of existence, or so small that he couldn't see it. MAYBE it was small enough that the teeny tiny air particles were crashing into it and destroying it that way, but Toby couldn't really tell. He very much doubted that it was completely gone, though.

So... now what? He wasn't totally sure he'd done the whole thing right, as he had no way of knowing if the planet was still intact or not (and randomly pointing his wand into the empty space and casting the engorgement charm didn't seem very wise) but... hm.

Suddenly, inspiration struck. Toby had bought his Astronomy textbook along with him today, just in case he needed it, and also for destruction purposes. That thing was a total brick, and had been the intended fate for this planet anyway. Who was to say it wouldn't still destroy the possibly-still-present teeny tiny planet?

Toby grabbed the textbook, raised it high over the workstation where the shrunken planet presumably still was, and SLAMMED in down onto the surface, making a much louder noise than he'd been expecting. The Hufflepuff glanced around him making that 'oops my bad' face, and lifted the book up again to inspect it and the worktop. Well... he couldn't SEE anything, but it was safe to assume there was no survivors, right? Right.

Satisfied, Toby collected his wand and the other two bags of planet-powder, and made a swift exit from the laboratory. Next stop, Airey's office to ask a small favour for phase two of the homework, and then it was off to the grounds.