He had always had a penchant for Transfiguration, but aside from the enjoyment he got from now teaching the class - a class free from muggleborns, of course - he was enjoying the sense of panic and frustration that swept through much of the student body. The looks, the whispers - he didn't bother to hide his amused smirk at it all. Particularly when his new position also came with adoring looks from many of the girls. While Thomas would never act on anything, he certainly didn't hate the thought that there were schoolgirls crushing after him.
"Thank you, Mister Malfoy," he returned, privately amused that they would be so formal when he'd considered Draco a peer a few short years ago. Well, more or less a peer. He'd been a younger year then, of course, not quite on Thomas' level, but they'd both been students. It amused him to have that relationship changed now.