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[alt_seamus]

We are learning about the Goblin Rebellion of 1711 in History of Magic. I was trying hard to pay attention. And its a little easier because Padraig the Patient is one of my heros. (He wasnt really patient. That name makes him sound so dull.)

But then Professor Binns said that Padraig was a mudblood. That cant be true, it just cant. Padraig was a

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[alt_padma]

Binns is dif defen definitely wrong, he has to be. Don't blame Parvati for trying to make sense of it. Padraig must have had a wizard in his family somewhere because even when muggles steal magic from wizards and make mudbloods, the magic is all bad and twisted, right? I mean, they do bad things with it and hurt people, right? And Padraig didnt hurt anyone with his magic, except maybe bad people, so he must not have been a mudblood.

[alt_seamus]

Padraig was a great hero and he did all sorts of good stuff. He put down that goblin rebellion. And then came up with a treaty that solved some of the problems well enough that the Irish goblins didn't rebel the next time the English ones did. And he invented the charm for the Unbreakable Vow.

I dont blame Parvati. It was Binns who was insisting he was a mudblood. Parvati was just trying to make sense of it like you said.

[alt_harry]

Tell us what Mr Rosier says mate. Im dead curious.

[alt_seamus]

I will! I owled him this afternoon.

[alt_neville]

I don't see why it has to be wrong, really. People can come from all kinds of different backgrounds and go on to do brilliant things. I don't know why Professor Binns would make something like that up or anything.

[alt_seamus]

But mudbloods arent like us. There are magical things like portkeys that would work even for muggles if you gave it to them and mudblood magic is kind of like that. Our magic is in our blood.

Padraig was really noble and brave. Maybe you dont understand because you arent Irish.

[alt_neville]

Uh . . . people who aren't Irish don't understand anybody being noble and brave?

Maybe people with magic who don't have wizards for their mum and dad are the only ones who can understand how they might have magic of their own. But I don't get that stuff about them stealing magic from others.

[alt_seamus]

No people who arent Irish might not understand how it feels to have a teacher insult an Irish hero.

[alt_megan]

Doesn't no evidence mean no one knows? Only we do. Sort of. Because if he was a mudblood, he couldn't have done all that. Everyone knows that. So that's evidence.

Look at the ones around the castle. Can you imagine them making treaties?

Professor Binns must have been confused. I suppose? He's awfully old.

[alt_seamus]

Hes not just old, hes dead!

[alt_megan]

Yes, but he was awfully old before he was dead. Older than my guardian! So he may have got mixed up. Some of my guardian's friends get mixed up. Not very often. And it's not funny at all. And my guardian never does.

[alt_seamus]

If he gets mixed up then why is he teaching history. None of your guardians friends are teachers are they?