Toby nodded at Glendower's response. Yep. Jeremy Gryffindor. Well, Tobias was pretty sure that the guy never existed, and the same belief went for basically everyone who attended that class, but he never wanted to suggest that French might have been wrong. You never know; Professor French might have known stuff that NOBODY ELSE knew. Maybe. It was a possibility? A... very slim possibility.

As other students gave answers and Glendower responded and added stuff to the board, Toby sat and twirled his quill and occasionally added things to his notes. Moving on though... yep yep yep, this was this stuff he'd been thinking about, which was handy. Y'know, staying on that same train of thought.

So, the questions. Once again, Toby took his time thinking, though that was more to do with the fact that his thoughts kept trailing off towards irrelevant things before he remembered exactly where he was and what he was supposed to be doing. Eventually, he raised his hand.

"I think... that we would have had houses, but they might have been based on different things. Muggle schools have houses, y'know, but not based on characteristics. Where you go is more random and luck than anything else. Maybe it'd have been more like that here." Toby lowered his hand, back to twirling that darn quill of his yet again, but continued speaking. "And I think that having houses is only less beneficial if you let it be like that, and if you think of them as splitting up the school. At the end of the day, it's just, like, a name. And a set of colours. A place to sleep. It's a way of putting like-minded people together, but nothing's stopping anyone from befriending people in different houses, right? You don't see rivalries now like they say used to happen; everyone knows they can be friends with each other these days and that that's good." Another pause. "You don't have to be defined by your house, but I guess a lot of people like knowing they have somewhere they belong, even if it's just at first."

That had been good for Toby, back when he'd been very new at Hogwarts and not known anyone at all or anything. Having his house had helped him find his place. Now, of course, most of Toby's friends did not belong to Hufflepuff, and branching out to all the other houses was like the best thing ever.

"At the end of the day, we all belong to the same school, right? I don't think we're really that divided at all, when it comes down to it." Hufflepuff answer was Hufflepuff.