Harry Potter and the Mute

Here I am again, sitting in the bathroom by the toilet puking my guts out. But does anyone come? Of course not! Not in this house. See I live with my cousin and her husband and kid. I'm pretty sure they hate me, but I have nowhere else to go so I stay. I mean I am only seven, though most would think I'm under five.

I would ask them to take me to see a healer, but I don't talk. I haven't made a sound since I was dropped off here when I was a year and a half. My father, Sirius Black, was put in jail because of another's crime. But I know better, about a year ago, Cissy, my cousin, gave me a box that he lift for me. Inside was a letter telling me everything.

On top of all that, I am a witch, but I can't use magic.

"DELILAH! GET DOWN HERE NOW!" the voice of Lucius, my cousins' husband yelled.

Pulling myself off the bathroom floor I straightened my thick robes that I was wearing even though it was the beginning of July. I patted down my sleek black hair as I walked. I arrived in the drawing room and saw Severus Snape, the person who held a personal grudge against me because of my father.

I stood, waiting to be told to do something. I saw Draco sitting on a chair watching, waiting for me to get yelled at. My stomach lurched as I saw Lucius with a bag that appeared to have my stuff in it.

"You are leaving. You have a trust vault at gringots wizarding bank. Here are your things. Severus is taking you to Hogwarts and then you probably will go to an orphanage. You are not to contact us ever." He said then threw my stuff at me.

Tears welled up in my eyes, they probably thought that they were sad tears but they were the opposite. Snape roughly grabbed my shoulder and turned on the spot and disaperated.

We landed on a road that I could see led to a castle. The dizziness caused by the mode of transportation made my stomach do a flip. I rushed to the side of the road and threw up for the billionth time that day.

"Hurry up you brat." Snape snapped at me, and started walking towards the castle. I followed hopping that the sooner I got there I would be able to get away from him.

We made it to the castle then he led me to a room filled with beds. A plump witch came out took one look at me and told me to lie down. I figured it was better to do as I was told then get crucio-ed.

I lay down and Snape said, "Narcissia decided that she was too much of a burden. I was told to bring her here and let you do what you want with her. Good day." Then turned and left.

"Hello dreary, my name is Poppy Pomfrey; I am the midi-witch at Hogwarts School. How are you feeling?" She asked. Unable to make a speak I groaned. That was a mistake, the pressure on my stomach was too much and I leaned over the side of the bed and puked on the floor. "Oh, dear." She muttered and left me on the bed.

A few minutes later she returned with a few potions. "Drink these, they will help and allow you to sleep."

I took the potions and she tucked me in, "I'll be in my office if you need me, it is the door there," -She pointed- "come get me is you need me."

I nodded and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up the first thing I noticed was a tabby cat staring at me, it had black rings around her eyes that looked like glasses.

It sat for only a moment then it jumped and turned into a person. That caused me to jump and nearly fall out of the bed.

"Sorry, I was told to watch you and I figured that a cat would scare you less then me sitting beside you. You haven't seen me since you were a baby. Your dad was my student." She said, "My name is Minerva McGonagall. I am the transfiguration professor here."

I looked at her, then at the table where a lone quill sat. I picked it up and looked at the professor. I gave her a questioning look then did a writing motion with the quill.

"Do you want some parchment and ink?" she asked. I nodded. "Alright," –she waved her wand- "here you go." She handed, me the things and I quickly wrote, 'Thank you.' On the paper.

I went on to write, 'My name is Delilah Black. My cousin Narcissia Malfoy decided that she didn't want me anymore so Snape brought me here. They told me that they don't want me, that I am not to contact them ever, and that I have a Vault at Gringots. I have the key in my bag. I do not talk; I haven't talked, or made much noise at all since I can remember. I can talk, but I would rather not. I would like to see my father, I know he is in prison but he is still my father, and I want to get the chance to meet him. I know I have other cousins, like Bellatrix and her husband, but I also know of Andromeda and her husband Ted. I know that I have a cousin named Nym-nymfa- well I don't know how to spell her name because it's really long. I know that my god parents were Lily and James Potter and I know that they are dead. I know they're son, Harry has 'stopped' Voldemort, but he will come back. I also know that some one everyone thinks dead, isn't. I never want to go back to the Malfoys, and I hope that you under stand. Thank you for helping me, even though you don't know me.' I wrote my name on the bottom and handed it to the professor.

She read through the note nodding every so often. Then looked at me and said, "I'll see what I can do." She looked up as the door opened.

A man with a long white beard and long white hair came up to me and said, "Miss Black, is it?"

I nodded and looked for the other piece of parchment that I had put down. I wrote 'hello,' on it and showed the white haired man. He nodded but looked thought full.

"Why don't you talk" he asked, quite rudely I think.

I wrote, 'that's none of your business, sir.'

"I think it is," he said looking in my eyes, after a moment I felt a tingle on my mind shields and immediately put them up full strength. The man stumbled and looked very, very annoyed.

Angrily, I wrote, 'what part of "none of your business" don't you get?'

He glared at me and let the room.

McGonagall looked annoyed as she stared at the door. "That was not right. You know occlumency?"-I nodded-"That's very advanced for someone your age."

I wrote, 'it helped with Lucius, you know, he's a death eater, has the dark mark and everything.'

I looked up at McGonagall to see her white in the face. Her mouth opened and closed looking like a fish out of water. Then she asked something I wish she didn't, "Did they- did he use the Cruciatus curse on you?"

My hand trembled as I wrote, 'yes'.

"Oh, you poor dear." She said. I looked down and not at the distraught transfiguration professor. "You shouldn't have had to go through that, if your father finds out, he will be put in Azkaban for something he actually did."

I looked up shocked then wrote, 'you know that he wasn't the Potters' secret keeper? That Pettigrew is an animgi? A rat and he cut off his own finger?'

"How do you know?" she asked.

I wrote, 'he wrote me a letter, to tell me he's sorry that he wasn't there, that he missed my childhood. It gave me enough evidence to get him a trial. That in that trial he would even take veritaserum. And that he would even give any information on Pettigrew that he had.'

"I am taking you to the Ministry of Magic, and getting your dad a trial. It's not fair to you or to him that he's there." She said, and then se glanced at the office door. "If Poppy says you can leave the hospital wing. Until then, would you like to meet your cousin Nymphadora?" I nodded my head. "Alright I'll go get her."

A/N: Yo, this is my third story that I'm putting up. To give you some info I decided that I would put it at the end of each chapter, if and only if it won't come up in the next two chapters.

Okay, Tonks is thirteen now and she will be twenty one in the forth book, although, I am not entirely sure if she is even in it. If not, she will be now. (Let me know)

Delilah is seven and is the daughter of Sirius Black and Olivia Buick, you'll find out what happened to her later in the story.

Harry is coming. If you can think of a short form of Delilah, tell me. Otherwise, it will be Lily, and I don't really want to use that.

Anyhow, you know review!