Minerva & Severus at its best!
So much love for this! Minerva shown as a whole person, a woman with a childhood, young womanhood, all those memories still very much with her - but inside her, because Minerva McGonagall is quite contained, isn't she? And the battered little black tom - I was so worried he'd never manage to come back to his own form! Such a lovely story, so clearly detailed I can imagine all kinds of adventures taking place after this beginning.