Challenge: Snatchers
Word Count: 100
Binns closed his eyes, and it was something of a shock to realize that he was fighting back tears. Severus did not speak – he had never imagined that the ghost could feel so deeply about anything, let alone a group he professed to find ridiculous – but flipped to the end of Hogwarts: A History to refresh his memory of the incident when a Snatcher had nearly taken Penelope Clearwater's cousin.
“This cannot continue,” Binns said at last. “The Assembly might not be what it once was, but kidnappers of the young have no place in its revels.”