Hey! Here is another chapter! I didn't go to school today so I am posting another chapter! Enjoy! Please R/R! I don't own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does!!

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Sirius sat at a table by himself with his Potions book opened. This was how he spent his evenings, glancing at his schoolbooks but not really paying attention to them. School was so easy, Sirius sighed. He didn't need to be here, he knew it all.

"Is it true your family doesn't like Muggles?"

Sirius glanced up to see a boy, probably a 2nd or third year standing in front of him. Sirius sighed and lowered his book. Why was he talking to him? He then pondered the question, what were Muggles? He had heard the name before but had never bothered to ask.

"Er. I don't know what Muggles are," Sirius answered truthfully.

"Muggles, you know the people without magic in them. You must have heard of them," the boy gaped at him as though Sirius had two or three heads.

"Oh! Mudbloods! Oh yeah, er, my family-"

Sirius stopped. The whole common room had gone quiet. He looked around, everyone was looking at him.

"You bastard!" and before Sirius could do anything the boy had punched him right in the face.

Sirius yelled out in pain, the Potions book fell to the ground. The boy hit him again.

Sirius had no idea what he had done wrong. He tried to shield his face from the boy but that didn't work either. The boy kept punching him. Sirius saw some of the other Gryffindors coming over. Sirius somehow threw back the chair and bolted from the room. The Gryffindors yelled to him, "Don't come back!"

As he ran, tears formed in his eyes and the pain settled in. Sirius was sure his face was a mess, and he would have liked to stop but he knew he had to get to Andromeda. She was the only person who would help him. She had shown him the way to her common room once, so Sirius ran as fast as he could.

"I need Andromeda Black!" he screamed to the portrait that was the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room. He got to the entrance and waited. He touched his face and yelled in pain. He looked at his fingertips though, they were bloody.

Andromeda came out, took one look at him and screamed. Her hands went to her mouth, "Oh Sirius!"

His nose was bleeding, the blood was running down his face, and onto his robes. As he stood there and Andromeda observed him, he could feel his left eye closing. He was sure he was getting a black eye.

"I'll take you to Madam Pomfrey!" she escorted him to the hospital wing.

As they walked, Sirius thought back to the conversation in the Tower. What had he said? He had a feeling that Mudblood was an offensive name but it was what he had been taught to say.

They got to the hospital wing. Andromeda told Sirius to get on a bed and she went to get Madam Pomfrey. Sirius sat trying to ignore the pain in his face. He closed his right eye, what was the use in seeing if he could only see out of one eye.

"Wipe your face with this," Madam Pomfrey was standing in front of him as he opened his eye. She handed him a cloth. Silently he wiped the blood from around his chin and mouth.

With a wave of her wand, she fixed his nose and eye. Sirius felt his left eye being opened and though it still hurt, he could use it. "I'll give you a pain killing potion, that should take care of the pain." She left the room.

"What happened?" Andromeda asked.

"Some kid asked if our family hated Muggles. But I didn't know what a Muggle was, I've heard the word before but I didn't know what it meant so this time I asked, and he described them. Did you know that Muggles are Mudbloods?" Sirius looked up at her.

Madam Pomfrey came back into the wing. She handed him a potion that he drank without thinking about how foul it would taste. She told him he could go. He left with Andromeda.

"Mudbloods is an offensive term for Muggles. Never call them that, its Muggles."

"But Mother and Father call them Mudbloods," Sirius protested.

"They also support cousin Araminta who wants to make Muggle hunting legal," Andromeda reminded him. "They don't like Muggles. Don't use the term."

Sirius nodded, "I didn't know."

"I know you didn't," Andromeda said and they stopped walking. She placed a hand on his shoulder. "Hang in there."

"Andromeda what's the difference between us and Mud- Muggles?" asked Sirius.

"Nothing, we just have the ability to use magic," Andromeda shrugged.

"So we aren't better than them?"

"No Sirius," Andromeda told him.

"This is all so confusing!" Sirius sighed.

"Good, I like to hear that Sirius. Think for yourself just don't do what they do. You have a brain Sirius, and a good one, use it." Andromeda smiled. "How are your classes?" She asked changing the subject.

"Easy."

"It gets harder," Andromeda told him but she wasn't so sure. She knew her cousin was bright, and she wasn't sure it would ever get hard for him. He might hate studying but he knew magic, it just came natural to him.

"Maybe," Sirius shrugged.

"Come on, I'll take you back to the Tower," Andromeda told him and they started walking again. "Did you get a reply from Uncle Alphard yet?"

"Do I have to?" Sirius looked up at her. Sirius ignored her question. "Why can't I stay with you tonight?"

"You have to go back. Prove to them that you aren't afraid of them. Don't let them get the best of you." Andromeda told him firmly. She stopped walking again. "Never let anyone get the best of you Sirius. Never again. Promise me?"

Sirius nodded. "For you."

Andromeda smiled, "Come, I'll yell at the Prefects for you."