Madam Sèvres
A very simple question: if Georgiana had looked like Maria, would Napoleon still have given her six million francs in breakup compensation?
The answer was obviously no. But he was not so stingy as to give her nothing at all. During his stay in Lyon, he restored Saint Bernard Asylum, donated 22,000 francs to it, and ordered everything that had previously been sold off to be redeemed. According to Chaptal, it was also here that he announced his plan to build a road network to the high officials accompanying him on the inspection.
Lily was very beautiful. Hearing Severus call her a Mudblood made her feel the world was unfair. But what if someone had called her ugly?
Lily had only been a teenager then. How could a little girl have thought so much? Besides, she later paid for that decision with her life.
Lily had always been a clever girl. She wisely chose James Potter, who was wealthy and willing to change for her. But she was, in the end, only a Muggle-born witch living in the relatively peaceful twentieth century. To her, "witch" was merely an unpleasant word. How could she have known what it felt like to be hunted?
Rather than hating and envying red-haired Lily, Pomona now hated Severus's stubbornness even more.
Jealousy had made her irritable and frenzied, almost to the point of losing her mind. Yet the cold-blooded rationality that let her retain a sliver of reason at critical moments also kept her calm. Her situation was not much better than Maria's now. In everyone's eyes, she had already "fallen out of favor." Having lost Napoleon's protection, the Scourers would soon come looking for her.
Diviners were unlike other wizards. They needed fame; the greater their fame, the more people came to