SPOILER!!: HOOK!
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sweetpinkpixie 
He GLARED at the boy. "It is bad form to finish sentences incomplete," he said. "Consider that a warning." The boy already had his fate sealed, but perhaps if he learned good form by the time class was up he would reconsider his decision. Possibly.
And then his eyes were on the girl...who was telling him that his decision had been made in the WRONG. He was NEVER wrong, and yet her tone was one of truth...and he was now questioning if he had, in fact, acted in bad form.
WHAT AN APPALLING THOUGHT!
"I...sincerest apologies to you, girl," he said as he took her F grade parchment and tore it up into tiny bits that he then threw into the air. "I revoke your grade." But just hers. Not the boy next to her.
Especially after what he said next!
"Tell your captain the truth," he said calmly as his examined his hook in the light. "You think that I would have the audacity to try and poison those who I have been told I am to educate. That I, JAS Hook, would act in bad form and deceive you all. Go on...say it...say you do not trust me...go on..."
In an uncharacteristic gesture of defiance, Toby sat there and crossed his arms and set his jaw. This wasn't just Flamsteed dressing up. He wouldn't LOCK STUDENTS in a CUPBOARD. Or dribble space food unattractively into his beard. No way, this was whatever bizarre magic had happened to make Lex go all weird recently, and apparently other kids too.
As for TRUSTING him... that... was difficult to answer. Toby trusted everyone until he was proved that he couldn't, and maybe it was just because he was kind of irritable on an empty stomach, but he REALLY didn't trust this guy. He was acting kind of... frightening. BUT he'd SAID to tell the truth...
"I don't think I do," the Hufflepuff replied matter-of-factly, though he eyed that hook with something a little closer to unease. But it was fine. He'd be fine.
"I trust Professor Flamsteed, but I'm not sure I trust............ you." ... HE'D not said anything about POISON either. Had just figured the food was enchanted, or maybe spiked with a potion. Other kids all around him had eaten the ice cream, and nothing had happened to them yet. But in his first year the effects of the ice cream hadn't been immediate, SO that totally wasn't proof that he was okay.
"And I definitely don't trust the ice cream"
No. The only way Toby was going to go prancing around the school as Prince Charming in a frilly shirt and tights would be on HIS say so.
"Aren't you sentencing those you were told to educate... to walk the plank?" ...
"Bad form, sir!" Would... would playing along help?
This was completely mental. All the information of the class was simply not going into Toby's head, because of the incredibly HUGE distraction in the form of THE ENTIRE LESSON. He had no chance here, and figured... maybe he'd have to consult the textbook for the rest of the lesson. And... poor PEBBLES. WHAT.
Toby waited until he was PRETTY SURE Hooksteed was distracted by some other crazy part of the classroom, and discreetly retrieved his wand from his bag under the pretense of retrieving a quill he'd 'knocked off' the table.
"Accio Pebbles," Toby cast, still ducked down and HIDDEN, and waited for the pet rock to to zoom into his hand. Once he caught the poor rock, who'd hopefully not drawn any attention (they were supposedly in 'zero gravity' after all), he pushed her into his schoolbag, wound the strap around his leg for safekeeping, and straightened in his seat again.
Then he looked at Soph, wondering what they should do now. Play along and 'float' to the food and see how the lesson would play out? Get Pebbles to safety? Walk the plank? Start a mutiny?