Quidditch practice

[alt_harry]

So far Quidditch practice has been brilliant. It's one thing to play with just Draco and me and it's another thing to play with a whole team. Usually Draco and me would either just throw the Quaffle around with Hydra or we'd let the Snitch out and see who could catch it first, but this is different.

Since Professor McGonagall wrote about the weird journal entries that keep coming up, I asked Moebius about them. He said we wouldn't get in trouble if we read them but we ought to try not to if we could possibly help it. I keep looking back at it, anyway, so it's good we won't get in trouble. I can't really help it, it bothers me alot. He said that Mudbloods don't steal magic. But it doesn't have to be them that steals the magic. If I were a Muggle, I would probably want my kid to be a wizard, because it's always been so much better to be a wizard. I bet that muggle grown-ups do it, and put the magic into their kids. So Mudbloods don't really have magic, and we can't marry Mudbloods because then our kids will be weak, but it's their parents fault.

Even if it is their parents fault they obviously can't be allowed to be like us, because if they were then people would probably want to be friends with Mudbloods and maybe marry them, and then the kids would be weak, and everyone would just be unhappy. Besides, when Muggles ruled the world we had World Wars and pollution and religious fanatics and things, and now we can make sure that they behave right. All the Mudbloods I've ever met haven't been like that, but the Muggles I've met have been awful. I can see why Father had to make sure things changed.

I don't understand why people can't see that.

Comments

[alt_michael]

Maybe it's just that the word 'stealing' is wrong. Mum always told me that it wasn't necessarily something muggles and mudbloods did on purpose, the magic stealing bit. It sometimes happened if they just touched you, like if you put a rag on a puddle, the rag gets wet. So maybe that's not stealing stealing. Or maybe what's his face was lying. I don't know. Your father would know better, I bet.

[alt_harry]

Yeah, that makes more sense to me. Only I think that some Muggles might actually want to hurt wizards, you know. So maybe they do steal things.

[alt_michael]

I think some do. But I don't think they all do it on purpose. They don't mean to do it, but they do. That's why they're so dangerous. Even the nicest one can hurt you if you let them.

[alt_theodore]

It doesn't matter if it's their parents or the Mudbloods themselves stealing magic, they should be punished either way.

[alt_harry]

You think? For something they didn't do?

[alt_ron]

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[alt_harry]

What?

[alt_ron]

How d'you reckon someone could steal magic?

It's not like it's hanging about on our heads waiting for someone to nick it off, right?

[alt_harry]

Well, magic works because you have power, right? That's what Father always told Draco and me. And it uses up some of your power to do magic and you have to re-generate it, just like it takes muscles to lift things, that's why we can't do big things yet, because we aren't grown up and we aren't practiced. So maybe someone could sort of suck the power off of someone else, and put it in their kid. Only then it wouldn't be really theirs, see? So they wouldn't pass it on if they had kids and that would weaken everyone.

I don't know, I'd probably do it, if I were a muggle.

[alt_ron]

You really believe this bollocks? Sucking magic out of someone and putting it in someone else?

Think about it, Marvolo. If Muggles, with no magic at all, could do that, why wouldn't wizards do it if they had a Squib?

[alt_harry]

Maybe you have to kill someone to do it. Or maybe it only works if you don't have magic. Maybe if you have magic you can't do it.

[alt_ron]

So the Muggles are murderers as well as theives?

[alt_harry]

Well, look at all the people they killed in their wars and things. They are murderers.

[alt_ron]

Oh brother

You even listen in History of Magic? So're wizards when they have wars. It's sort of the reason wars are bad and people work so hard to avoid them, yeah?

[alt_harry]

I suppose.

Wizards don't kill as many people though. They killed millions of people. They weren't even ashamed of it either - didn't try to hide it. Father showed me some old Muggle school textbooks. You know that's why we have to have the wards over all of Britain, because the Muggles try to throw their atom bombs at it, to kill all of us?

[alt_ron]

Maybe if I tried talking to the curtains over my four-poster, I'd have more luck. Because this? Going no where fast.

What about the Muggleborns we have here, at Hogwarts? You reckon they're all murderers or the kids of killers?

[alt_harry]

No. I don't know. Maybe that's because we take them away from their families, now, as soon as we can. They get brought up by proper wizards.

I don't think that the Mudblood who waits on the head table could do anything that bad. Sometimes I wonder about the kid in the Transfiguration classroom though. He's so quiet and weird.

[alt_ron]

You're calling that a good thing>? Taking them from their families and made into slaves just because they were born magical? You really are mental, Marvolo.

Muggleborn. Not mudblood.

[alt_harry]

But what if your family was teaching you how to be bad? Wouldn't you rather live with someone who taught you how to be a good person, even if you had to serve them, than someone who made you bad?

[alt_ron]

...

You see Boot's entry earlier? The one that had Neville rushing off? Is that your idea of teaching someone to be good?! And what about Hermione? You saw what McGonagall had her doing.

Right? You think that's teaching someone to be good?

[alt_harry]

I think that's why I keep re-reading the crazy entry.

I need to talk to Father about all this. I don't think either of us know enough.

[alt_ron]

I think I know plenty, thanks.

[alt_draco]

Why is it so crazy? He--the mudblood, I mean--obviously must have done something very bad, for something like that to be his punishment, don't you think?

All I know is that before, when mudbloods were allowed to do magic, and muggles didn't live in the camps, we pureblooded wizards had to hide who we were, and that it was considered shameful to have pride about our history and backgrounds. There were fewer and fewer pureblooded families and mudbloods were being brought in and taught magic alongside us, and no one seemed to think about the fact that they came from a completely different culture that had no respect for magic whatsoever. I reckon that's how that atom bomb thing got made in the first place--some mudblood learned magic and took it back to his people and gave them a bomb.