At her father’s comment, Ruby thought that it was perhaps reckless to be so ready to tell him of Mr. Zabini. Like most fathers, he would worry that Savino would lead her astray. Then again, he couldn’t really judge her for writing to a man, when he himself had eloped with her mother. And she and Savino Zabini were hardly about to elope!

“He is not a Hogwarts student, but rather a scholar of Divination,” she said carefully. Not too far off the truth, though he was in fact for his grandfather’s business. “I met him at Crowdy library, one time I went with Topaz. His name is Savino Zabini.”