Word Count: exactly 100
Challenge: 14 Crookshanks
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Title: Silent Witnesses
"So you know a student did not curse Crookshanks?" she asked pensively.
Snape nodded, "It appears to be the case the great hall provided an opportunity to investigate upper classmen who no longer took potions."
Hermione bit her lip asking softly, "Sir, what about…the other teachers?"
Snape's eyes glittered when he laughed. "Nothing I could detect. I would be the likely suspect, but I have portraits for my alibi."
"The portraits! What did they say?" she begged, her hope soaring.
Snape shook his head. "Nothing of value, there is only still life in that hall, and the fruit isn't talking."