Author's Notes: Written for Challenge #36 – Quick Fic Amnesty – on writerverse with the prompt "Hurt/Comfort". 100 words.

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Sometimes it felt to Hermione like Crookshanks was her only decent friend in the world. She understood how pathetic that was (painfully pathetic), but when she thought about Harry and Ron and even Ginny, the way they treated her and took the piss out of her and then expected her to help them…

And she took it. She bore it quietly and without complaint, and it frustrated her, but she did nothing to stop them.

Crookshanks demanded nothing but a home. Crookshanks loved her unconditionally – or, at least, he pretended to.

And Hermione had always been a cat person anyways.

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Fin