Quit wibbling. This is fabulous. My favourite parts: the tartan wall hangings and the scratching post, Minerva's anger at Rita's disrespect of Albus Dumbledore, the part about Minerva and Albus's friendship not having to be founded upon sex to be long and strong and beautiful, the portraits only pretending to be asleep... and:
"Here was a woman who had an extraordinary understanding of people, who knew how to get inside their heads or under their skin, who knew what they wanted and how to give it to them. Who knew what they had to offer and how to take it from them."
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Date: 2005-12-19 02:30 am (UTC)"Here was a woman who had an extraordinary understanding of people, who knew how to get inside their heads or under their skin, who knew what they wanted and how to give it to them. Who knew what they had to offer and how to take it from them."