(Fast forward to 10 years later, September 1st)
Everything looks more appealing, more attractive, more desirable when they are forbidden. That's common knowledge to all people, but especially parents. That time their toddler climbed up the kitchen table to get that box of cereal they didn't even like, only because they were told they mustn't, would be enough to teach them if they didn't already know.
That was especially true when it came to Delphini Black-Granger. A killer combination of her biological mom's courage, determination and recklessness and her adoptive mom's curiosity and love for the unknown, the word 'forbidden' sounded like music in her ears. Or better, like a challenge.
So it was only natural that, as soon as Hogwarts Express started in her first school year, she approached the one person she knew she shouldn't have: Teddy Lupin, a year older than her and a relative she had never met before and was curious to see.
Well, it's not like she was told about the reason why she shouldn't approach this particular boy. Delphini grew up in muggle London, in a little neighbourhood where no one knew about the infamous Bellatrix Lestrange, the golden girl Hermione Granger and the second wizarding war. She didn't hang out with other magical kids and she went to muggle elementary school until her Hogwarts letter came. She was told Bellatrix had done some bad things in the past, but her mom's never explained more and she didn't ask. She was sure both her mums were perfect, as every eleven year old kid is and should be.
"Hi" she greeted Teddy on the train with all the ease in the world. "I'm Delphini Black-Granger. I'm your aunt." she giggled, finding funny her nephew was older than her.
"I dont want to talk to you." the boy said, looking out the window to avoid her eyes.
"But why?" she asked, confused.
Teddy turned to face Delphi. Unlike her, he was told the whole story from a very young age, the age when he started to ask his grandma and godfather what happened to his parents. They all described Bellatrix in the darkest way possible, portraying her as a despicable villain not afraid to betray her own family to satisfy her sick ideals. They were just as angry at Hermione too: "She fell in love with a monster", " She betrayed her friends", "She lost her mind" were some of the few accusations trown at her in family dinners and gatherings she was not invited to, as if she never was their best friend and loved one. The first and only time he had heard of anyone defending them was when his uncle Draco, who married Harry a few years after the war ended, had drinked too many firewhiskeys. The moment Molly started talking shit about the ex Death Eater, he stood up and yelled: "Stop it about Bellatrix! People change, and it seems like she has too!" His husband tried to stop him, but he drugged him of. "In the end I was too a Death Eater once, wasn't I? But you still married me!"
Teddy was send upstairs and didn't know how this episode ended' no one reffered to it again. But Dracos words didn't come to mind that day at the magical train. He looked Delphi in the eye and exclaimed loudly:
"Because your mom killed mine!"
Delphi stood there in shock. "No she didn't! None of my mom's never killed anyone!" she emphasised, moving her hands up and down, trying to resolve what she thought was a huge misunderstanding.
"Yeah right!" another boy chuckled. "Aren't you the daughter of Bellatrix Lestrange?"
"The Death Eater?" an older girl peeked in the cabin, curious. "Bellatrix has a kid?"
"Ger out if here!" another kid yelled. "She is going to kill us all!"
Delphi left the carriage with tearful eyes. She collapsed on the floor, sobbing, at the exact moment the train stopped in front of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wisardry.