Funny Blood
Another one from a child's POV (this time, Sirius'). Don't worry, they do get older, I've just enjoyed writing them as children! Hope you enjoy.
Written for The Gemstone Challenge/Competition: Pearls
Written for Fanfiction Terms Competition – Next-gen
Sirius age 5 POV
I heard Mummy tell Daddy that the Minstrey (that's where daddy works) let too many mudbloods in. But no-one has ever told me what a mudblood is. It must be something really bad because Mummy and Daddy are always very angry when they talk about mudbloods. But Mummy and Daddy are angry quite a lot I think. Mummy shouts at me when she's angry and even though it's really loud and Regulus gets scared, I'm not scared because I'm not afraid of anything.
Mummy and Daddy tell me all the time that I am a your-blood. What's a your-blood? They say that your-bloods shouldn't talk to mudbloods and half-bloods and half-bleeds. I don't get what all the different kinds of blood are because blood comes out your skin when you fall off a broomstick or you fall off a tree and it's red and really cool.
Maybe the muddy bloods and half-bloods have something wrong with their blood. Maybe it was blue or rainbow coloured or maybe they fell too many times and got mud in their blood. I smiled. That sounded cool. But then why would mum and dad not like mudbloods if they have rainbow-blood or they fell too many times? And then what were a half blood and a half bleed and a your-blood? It was all SO confusing. One day, Mummy was in the kitchen and Regulus was sleeping so I asked Mummy.
"Mummy, what's a mudblood?" Mummy's face scrunched up not very nicely. Mummy always did this when anyone talked about the people with funny blood.
"Sirius, Mudblood means that a person is born from filthy muggles: those horrible, stupid people who can't do magic. You're a pure-blood, Sirius. Never forget that and don't ever talk to Mudbloods and filthy muggles!" Mummy was almost shouting again and I think she might be angry with me. I guess I shouldn't have asked about the people with muddy blood.
I'm still confused but. If a muggle is a person that can't do magic, does that mean a squib is a muggle? And can mudbloods do magic? And what's wrong with them that I can't talk to them?
I think I'd like to have rainbow-blood or muddy blood because that would be really fun and then when I fell off my broomstick my blood wouldn't be boring red but all different colours or like a muddy puddle. What can be bad about having rainbow blood or muddy blood?
I think I like the people with the funny blood.