'Yes, we do need to check. This is important.' Very much so. He couldn't believe he hadn't asked these things before. It was sloppy, and unlike him, and proved how much his mind had been turned in other directions lately.
'Well I was,' Theo said calmly. 'Naturally the elf would not be there to hover over him, but to help Fleur with every day tasks at the school. If anything happened he would be able to get Marlowe out of danger fast.'
'It's what's best for him, Verity, you know it as well as I do. He needs proper friends.'