[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Hermione/Crouch/Winky/etc.

[Aberforth's Goat]

Cindy started, then Pippin wrote:

7. Hermione embarks on a long and dangerous quest to restore
her true love Barty Crouch Jr.'s soul

David continued:

...which involves her in the supreme sacrifice of kissing the
Dementor to get him back.  Barty thanks Hermione as, inside the
Dementor, he had despaired of ever getting back with Winky, who is
at last able to explain the true story of her grief.

In a fit of pique, Hermione...

[Amy added]

 ...runs off with the Dementor, having been knocked to her knees by
the passion of its kiss.  Little does she know that her revenge upon
faithless love Barty has also wounded the heart of one who has loved
her silently from afar for lo these many months...

Pigwidgeon!

Despairing that Hermione will ever see him as more than an
occasionally useful sentient projectile, he takes a page from his
love's book and founds an organization for sufferers of interspecies
affection.

But at the very first meeting ...

... Things got off to a horrible start.

There was a lonely Ford Anglia parked outside - no one had expected any
beings who couldn't fit into the cozy den at the alpine lodge. A hyperactive
goat ate all the crackers, half the gardenias and was finally ejected for
nibbling on what turned out to be a pot of crotchety, middle-aged Mandrakes
trying to get friendly with a colony of free-thinking flobberworms. Someone
told a sensitive troll exactly where he could do with his club, and nobody
wanted to hug the Dementer.

But things really got tense when Voldemort and Nagini arrived, shocked and
teary-eyed, after the other Death Eaters had told poor Voldy to keep his
snake in its cage.

If Hermione hadn't ...

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
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"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been
bravery...."