Authors Notes: No money made, but lots of time wasted. JKR owns it all. Exactly 100 words. Thank you for your reviews. This is one of my first plot driven fics, and they do not go through a beta. I will finish this fic.

Title: Who is Judge and Jury?

The overwhelming grief emitted by the Gray Lady was renewing the painful broken emptiness in Severus Snape's being. Dumbledore was loosing his calm demeanor. Fawkes started singing, bringing strength to the living, and none too soon as Snape leapt from the settee the rush of air fluttering his cloak.

"I will not sit here and be judged by a ghost!" growled Snape, seeking escape from the room. Albus grasped those dark clad shoulders and spun him around.

"Ghost?" stated the spirit bitterly, "Is that what you think? The ghosts only accept my presence because we share one thing in common."