Late Arrivals and Lifetime Rivals: Snape's Worst Halloween
In which Crookshanks mentally prepares for the future.
Chapter 11: Helping Hands
Everyone stood back as I made further attempts to remove Crookshanks from Snape's snake head. He had tried in vain to reach his arms up and slap Crookshanks off, but his costume was too heavy and puffy in the arms. With one paw, Crookshanks repeatedly tried to slap back, and he only seemed to scratch Snape more.
Sirius Black pressed his fist to his mouth, his eyes watering, and he left the room with Harry and Ron. They said they had to get more butterbeers out of the celler. I later found out that Minerva and Molly had admonished him and told him the Order meetings would suffer if he did not pull himself together and stop laughing at Snape. Sirius, in a jolly mood, had reluctantly agreed.
Hermione stepped forward to hand Crookshanks a treat in an attempt to get the sputtering, hissing kneazle off of Snape's snake head.
Snape, astounded, replied in disgust, "You are rewarding this abominable creature, no wonder it acts so." It was a little easier to ignore him and not be afraid when you looked at the snake head as opposed to his actual face.
Hermione made many more attempts to placate her pet. "Crookshanks, DOWN, DOWN! Stop this! It is only Professor Snape."
Crookshanks, horrified, finally let go in disgust.
He had heard rumors of Professor Snape's lack of good hygiene practices. Supposedly, he had never met a human or a bottle of shampoo that he liked.
Crookshanks jumped off of the snake head in alarm and slinked over to the couch. He nestled on a pillow and rolled himself into a ball.
He began to lick himself furiously.
Hermione had better take him to a creature medical expert immediately after the party ended.
He assumed he would need a routine check up to see if he would be alright.
She had better appreciate him. He had given up many years of good health in order to see that she was protected.
Meanwhile, Professor Snape was attempting to get out of the chair. It took all of us several pulls to realize that he was stuck and that he wouldn't be moving anytime soon.