&hearts to you for your love of Narcissa's drabble. I took a lot of the description right out of the book, because I wanted to write it closely to canon, and added the sense that must have been dominant with such closeness to each other: smell.

And I love your comparison between Narcissa and Molly, how one of them changes and the other doesn't. I'm very wary of Molly in canon, I don't like that she doesn't accept boundaries. And I think that she is utterly ruthless if she wants something - and in that way, yes, I see how she is similar to Umbridge.

Thank you again for this wonderfully generous comment. I love when a comment gives so much back about what a reader thought or felt, and when it makes me think some more about the characters or about why I wrote a scene in a particular way. And yours did all that. &hearts