It was a strange phenomenon. When women fell in love, they often especially enjoyed buying heaps of things that made them look "gorgeous," and the whole process was immensely pleasurable without making them feel the slightest pang over the expense.
Pomona took a gloomy sip of her iced latte.
Many people envied Mrs. Malfoy for having a husband as handsome and considerate as Lucius Malfoy, but Lucius was actually a very busy man. Especially after the war, when he had avoided being sent to Azkaban and life had returned to "normal," how much time did he really have to spend with his wife and son?
This should have been someone else's family matter, but she did not need to investigate closely to make a rough calculation. He treated many family holidays as social occasions, including Christmas and the day his son accepted a godfather, not to mention all those family businesses, the board of governors, and Ministry of Magic affairs.
He was really like his "friends," thinking that women would be happy as long as they went shopping. Arthur, on the other hand, was always there when Molly needed him, even though his position at the Ministry of Magic was lowly and he often had to work overtime because of an order from above.
She had not expected Severus to one day live this sort of life either. But even Spencer Moon, the Minister for Magic who was close to Churchill, had started by making tea. Could she really expect Severus to parachute in and immediately land a good post?
Henry Shaw had no idea where he got his confidence from. He actually believed that by enforcing the Republican Party's Prohibition in New York, Democratic Party territory, he could defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt and the re-election-seeking Hoover to become President