Word Count: exactly 100
Challenge: 14 Crookshanks
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Title: Weary
Severus blinked breaking the spell with the Crookshanks but continued to stroke his soft fur. "You must remove your cat from the castle," he announced almost casually.
Hermione paused at Snape's calm demeanor, but his dark eyebrows exposed fragments of worry. "I can't take him home; my parents can't control him. Maybe he could stay in the forest?" Her voice became suddenly low and timid at his possible reaction to her next idea, "or perhaps the shrieking shack."
Snape suddenly felt very weary bracing his elbow against the arm of his chair; he eased his forehead slowly into his palm.