Word Count: exactly 100
Challenge: 14 Crookshanks
Disclaimer: No money made, JKR owns all of it.
A/N: I will continue this fic despite HBP. Traveling home this weekend.
Title: Hermione's Turn
Hermione scanned the professor's face seeking a response. He gazed back, blinking. His eyes had returned to normal, but the blackness glittered with some sort of understanding and sadness.
The creature rose up again through Crookshanks to float within their infinity crossing. Hermione felt the draping creep up her arms, through her veins and into her mind. It wanted something as it danced along the periphery of her soul, asking for grace, for permission. Hermione acquiesced with a gentle nod.
The evil horridness interrogated her mind with a single question by a thousand demanding voices all dark, terrifying, and foreboding.