Prompt: food insecurity
Word Count: 100
“It doesn’t matter how we give them, either,” said Pomona. She’d arrived with even more stories of children stealing food from the kitchen or the dining tables, the older ones putting whole pantries under preservation charms while the younger ones ate until they were sick. Others had begun force-growing staple crops in the greenhouses even though none of the elves knew how to cook African foods properly. “Is something wrong with the translation charms? I’ve tried telling them – “
“They’re traumatized, Pomona,” said Severus. He clenched his fists under the table. “That takes more than translation charms. Hire an alienist.”