In honor of the Kentucky Derby

[vulgarweed]

Well, for a certain value of "honor"...also inspired by a rant at fanficrants about how stupid it is to send the Harry Potter cast to a Muggle horse race in Kentucky. I agree. My alternative.

Not posted to snape100; doesn't fit the current challenge. Death Eaters behaving badly!

Breeding Counts

Words: 100
Rating: PG
Characters: Lucius, Blaise, Snape
Summary: In which Lucius demonstrates why he was never a contender for a teaching position.



It was the social event of the year for the overmoneyed, and Lucius Malfoy was holding court in his skybox at the great thestral race. “Breeding will tell,” he said, nudging his son’s friend Blaise, “See, the inferior line of the tendons there?”

“Er” said Blaise, looking down. “I can’t see them, sir.”

Lucius aimed his wand way down at the track, where the Muggleborn groom for the mount Cornelius Fudge owned was standing. “Avada Kedavra. Now you can. So – you do understand it’s the bloodline that…”

Snape rolled his eyes. The worst breeding he could see was up here.



So how'd it go for you? Your horse win?

Comments

Re: Horse Stories!! :)

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Ugh, seeing an accident like that... ow. I think the first time I saw people go real-time was watching the towers fall live on 9/11. I was recuperating at my folk's place from an emergency root canal and I was too sick and in pain to get up and change the channel from the scenes of the smouldering towers. And then they fell down. And people fell out the windows. And then they replayed it over... and over... I'm still in pain from that one, when I bother to think about it.

I've no idea how thestrals would 'like' legbands, streamers, or any of that stuff - might be interesting to see what they do about it. :D I hate to think what would happen if a thestral suddenly decided it didn't want a rider any more. It's bad enough when a terrestrial horse decides to dump a rider. A bucking-fit at 1000 feet would be pretty 'interesting'.

Will probably do the coloring of the art tomorrow after I've had sleep - my typos mean it's time to get to bed. :)