The DiNozzo family was a wizarding family, but from Italy and had stayed out of the civil war happening in the UK. He had met his husband at a summer event when he had returned to Italy following his graduation from college and the Police Academy. Everyone in his extended family had been surprised when he mentioned he was moving to America for muggle college after he left his wizarding education and then planned on staying. Despite this news, his grandfather, Lord DiNozzo, declared Tony to be his heir. Leaping over Anthony Senior, a man who liked to spend their family money as he pleased, for Anthony Junior.