For Narcissa's drabble, I ... have no words, really. It's just plain beautiful and tugged at my heart the most of all eight. From her hand finding Harry's collar loose; distinguishing between his dirty smell and the clean smell of her too-skinny son who suffered with more subtlety, to her acknowledgement of this gigantic courage and resistance - then she is brave, not out of her nature, but out of motherly despair. Very very good <3


And then you do that small, sweet, brilliant step from one mother to another, a very different one. This one has been brave and strong all along, which is why she can do what she does and it won't change her. Narcissa has been changed, but Molly hasn't; the reference to Lockhart's advice for mundane worries was a genius stroke to make sure of that, let alone that it's absolutely rich from a structural point of view.
I have never been close to Molly in the books, but I realise her importance in your drabbles: after all the conflicted other women, she draws a closing line. (I see a parallelism with Dolores' drabble, though, which you might not have intended ;))


Without adding too much general babbling, this was a fantastic refreshment of canon with the help of your fiction and interpretation! A great and interesting, though concise, read that I'm sure will leave its traces in future discussions. *applauds*