She did not usually tend to make pre-emptive judgements about people; it was terribly rude, not to mention potentially fatal for a spy. (Hermione took spying very seriously). But in this situation, she’d been inundated with so much gossip about him – his godly looks, his innumerable feminine conquests, his propensity for drinking and spending money like it was going out of fashion – that she felt justified in deciding he was not somebody she wanted to get to know.