Mudblood

[alt_terry]

late, but boot can't sleep. thinking instead

boot has known he is mudblood for as long as he can remember

since he showed magic at three

at the camp for mudbloods, all the others were like him

but hermione is the only other one here

hundreds of people here are boot's age

just like at camp

but boot must never never never talk to them because they are students and he is mudblood

boot lives at hogwarts, but hogwarts is not for boot
not for mudbloods

even mudbloods get lonely

at least hermione is a good friend

Comments

[alt_neville]

Maybe you can't talk to students, but students can talk to you? Or at least read what you're writing. (Not meaning that to make you nervous or anything, but just so you don't feel all alone. Cause you know people are listening. Or at least one person.)

Students can get lonely sometimes, too

[alt_terry]

boot cannot talk to student,

but can say thanks at least. is safe to say that, boot thinks. so boot does

thanks

[alt_neville]

It's not like I'm reading to do you a favour, exactly. It's just dead interesting, I mean, to read about someone whose life is really different, you know?

[alt_terry]

no, boot meant thanks for helping when boot got hurt. boot remembers.

sorry it made you lose so many points from him.

[alt_neville]

Oh. Oh, I see. I was glad--well, anybody would have helped.

[alt_terry]

no.

not anybody

very few, boot thinks

[alt_neville]

Well, I'm glad you're better, anyway.

[alt_sally_anne]

Was it just children at the mudblood camp or grown mudbloods too?

What was it like?

[alt_terry]

depends upon the parish, how big it is. smaller parishes, like boot's, the muggle, mudblood and squib camps were sort of grouped together, but separated by fences and wards. administration (guards and punishments and food) was in the center, and then the three different camps stick out from there, like triangle.

muggle part of camp was biggest, all ages. families together at first, but when department of muggle domestication said they were breeding too fast then boys and girls, men and women were kept apart.

when child shows magic, gets taken away from parents, taken to mudblood part of camp. boot was lucky: there was a woman who took him in. she was mudblood who got put in camp when ministry took her away from her husband (he was a wizard). if no one watches over really young mudblood children, they die. boot was given to him (boot's master) when he was five. met hermione there at the camp: she started teaching boot how to read and write. boot's master came here to hogwarts last year, brought boot with him. boot was really glad when hermione came here beginning of last summer.

don't know what squib camps are like. muggle camp was really crowded, but boot doesn't remember well.

mudblood camp small. cold. dirty and really hungry. how well you do depends on who you know. boot learned what he had to, to get by. guards are cruel.

hogwarts is better