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Parvati smiled modestly as Tallie complimented her sketches, adjusting the glasses she wore when she needed to sit down and work with pencils. Using her wand, she brought closer a plushy chair and gestured for Tallie to sit. "I'm afraid they're a bit of a mess right now, actually," she said with a bit of a sigh as she held up one sketch to reveal a stack of messy papers underneath with other half finished sketches. Turning back to Tallie as she sat down, she reached out a hand to squeeze her knee affectionately. "Lucky you're around to help me sort them out, then, innit?" Now that the school year had started and Tallie was only around the house for a few weeks during the year and a Hogsmeade trip every now and then, Parvati rarely got to spend any time with her alone -- there were usually many other people around in the house which, truth be told, was a comfort to Parvati, who had naturally developed quite a motherly fondness towards Tallie and wanted to be assured that she was safe given the headlines that were constantly surrounding her.

To Parvati, ultimate safety was defined as close friends and tight-knit family; she, after all, had always had her sister and her best friends during school and imagined that was a big part of the reason she'd grown to then create such a large family of her own. Her heart went out to Tallie, who not only might as well have been an orphan for all the good her parents did her, but was an only child with no siblings with whom to share the burden she'd been bestowed. It was this knowledge, of Tallie being quite alone in the world, that made Parvati -- and the rest of the family -- more than happy to welcome her as one of their own into their home. It was not because of pity that Parvati called Tallie into the room to get her opinion; she'd have asked the same of any of her other daughters.

"I'm a little torn, you see," Parvati went on, getting down to business. "I want to create a dress that resembles what you'd see in a shop in a town, but also looks a bit like sari. You see I've got a large draping part over one shoulder, there? The only thing is, I don't know how I want the bottom to be." Pulling out the second sketch, she held them side by side for comparison. "This one here would be chiffon and quite elegant -- but not all that different from how an actual sari looks. Now this one here would be tulle and could be a little more youthful, maybe even shorter and fun for a party -- since saris are already very sophisticated, this mixes it up a little and offers the best of both worlds. But then..." She held up the first sketch again, pursing her lips a little. "This one would give a woman the option of looking like she's wearing a sari without the hassle of wrapping herself up in six yards of overwhelming fabric, d'youknowwhattamean?"