Challenge: Holyhead
Word Count: 100
Note: this is yet another snippet from the Motherless Child series, where Snape and Lupin marry and adopt a young werewolf. Their son, John, is about ten.
“'Holyhead enjoys a moderate climate that is the envy of its neighbors, with cool winters and mild summers,'” John read from yet another pamphlet. “'Its major Muggle industry is aluminium smelting, although this has diminished - '”
“How nice.” Severus repressed the urge to destroy the tourist packet and order John out to the greenhouse to weed and pick grubs out of the compost. He was only ten, it was only a phase, he would grow out of it, where the hell was Remus -
“Did you know Dai Llewellyn's mother Gwennys was from Holyhead?”
Severus winced.