All joking aside though, I do feel really sorry for the lad. Why should he be treated any differently because of the way he was born? Kids can be so cruel.
I was shocked when I realised the level of abuse that lads with ginger hair took. This was among 13-year olds about 7 years ago. I doubt it has got any better.
Speaking as a ginger, we don't have souls. We've sold them to the devil as part of the pact whereby we have ginger hair in exchange for being given unfeasibly large genitalia.