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Felixir 
All wrapped up (school robes were unnecessary during times when they weren't required, and the novelty had died off long ago) in a warm winter jacket over the rest of his Hogwarts uniform, Tobias found himself working his way down to the Black Lake. In his mind, it made a lot more sense to do this homework inside, and in the warm, and test the boats in a bathroom sink.
But he was here now.
"Hey Cutty," the Hufflepuff called out when he was still about 20 feet away. The boy closed the distance, walked behind Cutty to get past him, and then perched on the large rock also. "Nice day for it," he said in a way that was so deadpan, even he didn't know whether or not he was joking.
Toby squinted out over the water and then up at the castle as he flipped the ends of his scarf over his shoulder and out of the way. The fourteen year old brought out the hunk of wood and piece of vine from his big jacket pockets with some difficulty. "Shall we get started?" he asked his friend, balancing those items on his knee whilst he withdrew his wand from his inside jacket pocket.
"
Tempus." He greeted back real casual-like, but inside his mind was all like...
He skooted a bit atop the rock, but not to make room for the Hufflepuff boy. Instead, he skooted closer. Craving the warmth, perhaps? "
Bloody cold as hell out." He agreed to what he thought was sarcasm and realizing he'd rather be in the Irie room. Why didn't Bellaire just have them do their homework in there? It had a beach. Or at least it did the last time he was in there. With Tora Gallaway. He couldn't help but smile at the blackmail he pulled for that one.
Cutty didn't so much as nod at the suggestion to get started, bit he did concur with it as was demonstrated by his mouth uttering, "
Lignum Navicula!" and his wand hitting the chunk of wood with the spell. His wooden clipper as before manifested like undetectable hands were performing origami on the solid wood chunk. "
Let's see what you got, Tempus." Cutty was willing to bet that the Hufflepuff wasn't bad at Transfiguration at all.