Astoria sighed loudly, cutting her off. "I am nauseatingly tired of women being pitted against women, aren't you, Penny?" She proposed. Hermione nodded along, mesmerized by the sheer authority in the other woman's voice; much like Narcissa, she demanded attention and, at the same time, did not wait for it. "I'm told you are quite brilliant and would very much like to get to know you, you know. I would hate for our mutual interest in a man to come in the way of that. It's absurdly primeval."