Word Count: exactly 100

Challenge: 14 Crookshanks

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Title: A Request

Twenty minutes passed in silence as Hermione started three cauldrons of pepper up potion.

"Sir I have a request," she asked respectfully.

Snape only nodded, never glancing up from the essays.

"I want to see my book. I need to research it to find out what really has happened to Crookshanks," she stated deliberately.

Snape stopped his grading, his deep voice smooth. "That book is off limits to you. The answer was in the spell. You will not find any additional information in the book."

"How do you know?" she challenged.

"I have owned a copy these past twenty-two years."