Word Count: exactly 100
Challenge: 14 Crookshanks
Disclaimer: JKR owns it, it's a pity I don't
Title: Only Kneazles Understood
For all the accumulated life experience of Severus Snape, he could never explain the onslaught of strange emotions though the cat's connection. The warm and accepting eyes of Hermione Granger sealed the loyalty connection only kneazles understood.
In that split second Crookshanks lept into Hermione's arms Snape felt the unconditional love and belonging, the joy of never being alone anymore, a life with renewed purpose of companionship and protection of the girl who had claimed him.
Suddenly a series of fragmented images flared: dementors on the train, Hermione studying, strange unintelligible discussions with a dog, a toad, and an owl.