The clapping from Botros was a right little ego boost, and Toby smiled at the professor's response to his answer. Soooo... yes. Not a bad answer, then. Good to know. Still smiling, Toby wrote that down along with the other answers Professor Botros was giving approval.

But yeah, moving on, what did Toby know about Loki? Quite a bit, because he'd raked through his textbook an awful lot, especially last year with studying and all. The shapeshifter thing had already been mentioned, and was pretty integral, but there was a lot more to go on. In fact, Toby was having trouble deciding exactly what answer he wanted to give, but eventually the Hufflepuff raised his hand.

"Before he went, uhh... evil and stuff, and got the bad reputation for bad things, he was the God of Fire. And basically he was really funny and wanted to make people laugh, which he did with pranks and stuff. But then the pranks turned into practical jokes that were, like... sort of nasty. It got out of hand. Eventually he became known as the Trickster God, and was more, uh... viscious. But yeah, I suppose playing tricks will get you the nickname 'trickster'."

Toby, who always liked to believe in the good in people (or in this case, gods) preferred thinking about Loki as he was before. Partly because it was before he went all mean (and Toby tried to avoid negative thought like it were the wizarding equivalent of the plague), and partly because he supposed it was easy to get carried away with pranks and tricks and end up hurting people. It was one of the reasons Tobias was very very cautious when it came to pranks and jokes, and almost always felt guilty and apologetic afterwards. He didn't want to become evil, okay?