SPOILER!!: Cutty
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SlytherinSistah 
Cutty's lip curled when he saw the amused expression Tobias was wearing as if mirroring the boy's amusement, but it made him look a bit disgusted as he added an information-gathering look up and then down on Toby.
He shouldn't have done that.
It only made his life more difficult.
He dismissed it with shut eyes and a shaking of the head, pretending as though he were shaking off the subject. Alright, then. On to Transfiguration. "I'm not entirely happy with that. I think I want something deeper. Reverto!" He said, stealing back the form from the wood. Cutty looked over at Toby's new boat with a smile at first, thinking it's form owing to his own advice. The smile, though quickly morphed into a mocking sort of laughter made worse by his pointing. But he was hardly laughing at Tobias. In fact, he wasn't laughing at Tobias at all. Seeing the first year boat reminded him of Fern Quimbley and how she'd bitten it getting into the boat and ended up with water all over herself.
And those were good times, apparently.
"Tobias! That. Is. Brilliant." He said snatching the boat out of the Hufflepuffs hands to have a good look at it, his monkey laugh dying down by now into little breaths. Cutty was looking quite impressed, a bright, genuine, but crooked smile replaced the afore given expressions upon his face as he examined the Puff's work. "You even got the scratches down. You pictured this carefully, didn't you? Nice work, mate!" He handed the boat back planning to keep-way when Tobias would go for it, but ultimately releasing it to him on the third or maybe fourth reach. Just for funsies.
"Well, if you're not nervous, then, what's wrong with you?" His glance darted from Toby's face to the hand fidgeting, and then to his renewed wood hunk. "Lignum Navicula!" The end of Cutty's wand hit the wood and manipulated the form once again, trading it in for the sleek, but detailed design of ancient Greek boatmakers.
Well, Cutty certainly seemed impressed with Toby's boat skills, and that of course made Toby as cheerful as ever.
"Thanks," he grinned. In Toby's opinion, that was high praise indeed, coming from the Slytherin who was producing some really cool boats.
"That's the only boat I really remember well enough to picture. You'd think I'd have been in more boats, what with living so near the coast."
He'd just raised his wand and opened his mouth, ready to try the spell again, when Cutty's unexpected question caught Tobias by surprise.
The Hufflepuff looked around, just in time to see Cutty's hunk of wood turn into a Grecian ship. He was impressed (again) but not distracted from the question.
"I..." Tobias began, squinted eeeeeever so slightly at Cutty, and paused for just a moment.
"There's nothing wrong with me," the boy said simply, and turned back to his block of wood again.
He had an image of a boat all ready, one that was pretty much ingrained into his minds from all the postcards and memorabilia that was sold on the pier where he lived. With that vague idea firmly in his mind, Tobias finally tried again.
"Lignum Navicula!" Tap.
The detail wasn't as good as the last boat, that was for sure, but now Tobias had in front of him a pretty decent version of a sailboat, sails and all. Much more useful than a simple rowboat, if you know what you were doing.
"I reckon one or two more tries at getting this right, then we can see how they float," Toby said outloud, half to Cutty and half just talking out loud to himself.
"Then there's still the other spell to try out."