Title: Pride Day, X Challenge: climate change Word Count: 100 Note: this is a prequel of sorts to Motherless Child, in which Snape and Lupin marry and adopt a child. This takes place before the series begins, soon after the end of the first war against Voldemort. Warning for some very nasty homophobic attitudes and language.
“Endangered? Thanks to Muggles?”
“Yes!” cried the speaker. She was young, with simple linen robes and short, practical hair, but the directed sonorus that only the magical could comprehend hinted at her power. “So are plimpies thanks to pollution and warmer oceans. So are so many other magical creatures. It's barely noticeable now, but in thirty years? Then where will we be?”
“We'll be fine!” yelled one beefy Wizard in a leather waistcoat. “Magic - “
“Will not help if the whole planet is unlivable,” Severus interrupted, ignoring Lupin's small but definite smile. “Let her finish.”