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feeheeheeny 
A proper best friend might have looked concerned and offered him a hand to help him back up, but the Hufflepuff sprang back up so fast and she wasn't the typical best friend - so she had to cover her face in her hands, avoiding his gaze and stifling the laughter that had began as soon as he started tipping. Totally not laughing at him. With him.
Once she had sufficiently suppressed her laughter, she peeked through her fingers at him, still grinning goofily, and mouthed, Sorry. After another moment, she held onto her own desk and leaned toward him to mouth further, You okay? Because she did care. It was just... really funny. He would be the one to fall out of his chair in the middle of class. Just Tobes.
Toby SAW THAT. He was WELL aware of a certain BEST FRIEND totally LAUGHING at him. Not that it bothered him at all, because was there really much that Sophie could do that would bother him? No. No there was not.
He still shot a mock glare at her when she asked if he was okay. Glaaaaaaaaaaaare.
It didn't last for very long before Toby smiled and gave a little nod. He was fine. Robust. Always bounced back.
But he would be getting his revenge on Soph for laughing at him.
SPOILER!!: AIRAYYYYYY
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sweetpinkpixie Giving Miss Brown a quick salute, his blue eyes glanced around the room and offered a small nod to those who were not raising their hands. Nothing wrong with just sitting and listening......
..............or falling out of one's desk as it seemed was the case with Mr. Tempus. "You alright there, Mr. Tempus?" he questioned, looking around the room at all the desks. He supposed the point had been made by now and he ought to put the poor students out of their misery. Even if they wouldn't be sitting like this for too much longer. "Hold on just a moment. I'll fix things..."
Wand out, Airey gave it a lavish wave above his head that caused the legs of the chairs and desk evened out until they were level once again.
You're welcome!
“Now as mentioned before, the Earth is also spinning around the Sun at a hundred thousand kilometers an hour, that’s a billion kilometers every year, and this spin is just as important as the tilt. Without this spin we wouldn’t have sunrises or sunsets or weather or life on earth at all!" But all this had already been said so just going to move right along. "On a slightly related note, can anyone tell me what June 21 and December 21 have in common? Besides the number 21 that is."
"I'm fine, sir," Tobias assured the professor.
"The floor broke my fall."
He grinned, to show that yup, all okay here. Didn't even injure his pride. Toby was, of course, very grateful when Airey fixed the chairs and desks, because now he could fidget some more if he needed to, and that always helped him focus.
...
When Airey asked the question about June 21 and December 21, Toby had actually started to put his hand up to say about the number 21, before hurriedly lowering it again at that added comment.
Moments later, however, it was back in the air.
"They're both days of extremes. Longest and shortest day, though which one is which depends on whether you're above the equator or below it. And they're right around the two times of year where the Earth is tilted at a specific angle in relation to the sun. Like, one for each hemisphere I think." There was more to it, of course, with the whole hemisphere thing, but the Hufflepuff stopped there, even though he really wanted to carry on. It was something Toby had found really quite interesting, if sorta difficult to totally comprehend. This was a good opportunity to understand more.