Toby remained completely deadpan. Of course he knew Soph was next to him, snorting in laughter at the answer he'd given. He very pointedly did not look at her, because he KNEW that the second he did, it would be game over and he'd start cracking up too. Instead, he stood there, casually checking out his nails (which were attrociously chewed up and bitten down as far as they could go, by the way) like nothing had happened. At Thompson's response, he simply smiled ever so innocently at him, then gave Soph a gentle nudge with his elbow once he'd moved along. Just to acknowledge the hilarity with her.

Anyway, yes, moving on, and Toby was absolutely certain to completely ignore that part of what Thompson was saying about 'tend to not live very long'. As soon as the words reached his ears he very aggressively hummed to himself in order to drown that part out, hardly realising he was doing it.

Aside from that little hiccough, the excitement was starting to build a little bit because obviously they were gonna be able to work with some baby creatures. Baby GRIFFINS. Hey, that was COOL. The core of Toby's wand was actually Griffin claw, which sprang to mind at that very moment. He followed the professor with the rest of the class and craned his head to try and get a look at the babies, attempting all the while to keep listening to Professor Thompson. Though really, it was difficult, 'cause BABIES.

When the word 'orphaned' was mentioned, Toby subconsciously hummed to himself again, a small frown on his face. He didn't think it was necessary to talk about that stuff. Too negative. Too awful. Time to just focus on the happy stuff, which was baby Griffins. No sad things. Not allowed. Not today.

Luckily enough, they weren't dwelling on that. At the prompting from Thompson, Toby moved further inside and found himself a space on the floor to sit, eyeing the Griffins eagerly and wishing he could cuddle them ALL. Would that be allowed? ... Maybe he'd come back later to do so anyway.