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

[millefiori.livejournal.com]

For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I clicked on the link without realizing it was you who'd posted it. (What the hell, it's just 100 words, right?) And I thought, oooooh, clever! Then I backed out and saw it was you, and I thought, well, duh!

I didn't actually have a horse before I watched, but now I'm totally in love with Barbaro (and not just because I've been totally in love with Michael Matz from way back in the Jet Run days). I'd so love to see him win the triple crown. Who was the last one, anyway? Seattle Slew??

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Hee. And aw. Glad to make you smile, even by stealth. (Perhaps especially).

Some people who know way more about horse racing than I do say the Triple Crown is a possibility. We've thought that before, though...I think there was one more recently than Seattle Slew, but I'm not really sure about that. It's been a pretty long time at any rate.

[millefiori.livejournal.com]

There was another one--Affirmed. (I'm so anal, I had to go look it up after I posted!) I really should've remembered that, since I had a massive crush on Steve Cauthen, his jockey.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Oo, good to know. What year was that?

[millefiori.livejournal.com]

1978, the year after Seattle Slew. It's been a long time!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Wow, almost 30 years still. No wonder people are getting so itchy for another one!

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Especially since Seattle Slew died 2 or 3 years ago, so there are no Triple Crown winners left alive - and we've had several horses come so close to doing it, only to fail. (In Real Quiet's case, by a mere nose!)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Definitely overdue. That'd be so exciting to see!

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Definitely! I remember watching Secretatiat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed win the Triple Crown back in the 70s; I'd love to see another horse do it now. 30 years between Triple Crown winners is 20 years too long.