Word Count: exactly 100

Challenge: 14 Crookshanks

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Title: Another Gift for Master Snape

Thirty minutes passed silently, and she set the potions to cool. Snape just completed his grading when they heard a loud persistent scratching at the door.

Hermione's head shot up from her work. "No it can't be!" she wailed with a mixture of horror and surprise.

Snape grimaced angrily yanking the door open to a very proud Crookshanks with bright yellow eyes staring into his dark master's, waiting expectantly for praise over his new gift.

"Well don't sit there cat, bring it in," Snape ordered stepping over the cat and casting a scourgify on the trail of fur and blood.