"I've not met the mother but I did have a separate meeting with the father," Quentin said. "Which is part of why I have a vested interest in the boy. The senior Longbottom was, to put it bluntly, a drunkard and lecher without an ounce of civility in his bones. The sort content to drink themselves to death while making everyone around them as miserable as possible. Noah, by contrast, seems to be aware that there is better and he seems willing to work to try and get it. I would rather him not walk down the same path as his father and it is within my abilities and reach to do so." He gives Uriel a slight grin. "And I've rarely needed more reason than that to do a good deed.