Word Count: exactly 100
Challenge: 14 Crookshanks
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Title: Love and Death
Hermione ignored the mixture of Snape's scrutiny and academic condescension as he explained pointedly, "death removes the life force and therefore possesses it for a short duration. That is why timing is an essential part of the spell. Death gave back that life at our calling, and I suspect your cat carries with him a component of death in the form of the shadow."
Snape paused shifting to stare at the floor. "It is your love Hermione that influences your cat when he is near. Removing the third life force will change the cat to his natural state of deceased."