The typical Christmas eve bash of Malfoy manor still happened. Despite Voldemort putting a damper on the festivities, Narcissa instead on keeping up appearances. She had limited the guest list to close friends and family only but the decorations, food and wine were still the very best. Even after being pumped with potions by the best healers in the Wizarding world, Lucius Malfoy was looking pale and his left hand had developed a bit of a twitch from all the torture he’d recently endured. The inner circle of death eaters and their families had been invited. They had a few dances and then decided to have dinner. Snape did not make it as he needed to be present at Hogwarts but everyone noticed that McNair was missing as well.