"You still don't have magic?" Sirius he might have laughed if it weren't for Bellatrix's abrupt turn of the topics. The jarring segue took him by surprise.
"Why's it so sodding hard to believe?" he asked, standing up to full height. If he didn't know any better, he would think Bellatrix cared he had left the family. Which was wonky because he always labored under the belief she was happy he left.
"I never believed in the rubbish they spouted. You did, which is why you adore them, but obviously I didn't. They called my friends mudbloods and half-breeds and blood traitors. What part of all that is difficult to understand?"