Chapter Nine:

Hogwarts Infirmary January 15, 2022:

Delphi was not happy, she was not hurt but Lucius was, again. This time he required a stay in the Hogwarts infirmary as the wounds were worse than before. This happened every few years and she still did not like healing him or being around him. He was not a pervert, at least not to her, but it was little things he did. Such as now, now he was seated clad only in a pair of black silk pajama bottoms talking with Narcissa. Delphi was not happy with either, Narcissa was her aunt and had not taken her in, why?

"You want to know why I did not take you in?" Narcissa said at the look Delphi was giving her. "For your safety and with the dark lord, I knew of the ritual and Harry Potter legally had a far more binding claim. You were not meant to stay where you were put, I only did what I did to save your life, thank Merlin you never did."

"You still did not want me, and I think I know why, I am the biological daughter of V-"

"No you are the biological daughter of my sister, but not him, your father is Harry Potter and that is how I intend on it staying."

"She is the daughter of my former master, that cannot be denied." Lucius replied, "how else can she heal me? How else are those marked know of her?"

"They know of me, how was sending me away going to help?"

"The dark lord used the manor as his last place of residence. It would be the first place those who knew of you would look. I sent to you to one who hated the dark lord to raise you."

"She would have hated me you know." Delphi replied, "no matter, I was found by my father and mother and am happy. Even if Voldemort and Bellatrix came back, I would not go to them, they are not my parents."

"As it should be, and really, you don't have any Riddle in you, well not enough to count. The ritual the dark lord used to come back used far more blood of Harry Potter than bone of his father." Narcissa said looking amused, "that was part of the reason you could defeat him, he was bound to your father by a life debt and when he shot the killing curse at your father, well your father was able to come back as long as the dark lord was on the earth, and it was only a matter of time before the dark lord fell."

"You saved my father." Delphi said.

"I did and would do it again, I do not like his politics much of the time, but he did not deserve to be treated how he was either by the dark lord or Dumbledore."

"Dumbledore was a great man, though his portrait agrees with you." Delphi said, "I an understand why you never even visited, that had to be hard for you, I am your niece by blood."

"Yes but you have a family, and a far better one than I could have been for you." Narcissa replied, "Lucius do put some clothes on, I don't care how good a shape you are in."

"We are all family here."

"You are the family whore." Delphi shot at him.

Lucius' eyes went wide at the insult and he looked ready to get angry. Instead he went behind a dressing screen and after a few moments came out clad in his teaching robes, which were one of his most expensive muggle suits with his masters robes in muggle studies over them. This too was required for him to stay free, he had to dress as a muggle teaching in addition to living in the muggle world during the summer. It was better than Azkaban and with his cunning he had made muggle studies one of the best classes around and made money off his time in the muggle world. He had Harry Potter to thank for this arrangement and really, it kept him alive as other death eaters saw this as a far worse punishment. At least his son and grand children were safe.

Later that day Narcissa headed to Delphi's office. She saw her working at her computer, something that was new in the magical world. Personal phones, Televisions, even computers were forbidden to the students and even at home parents severely limited the time their children were exposed. Computers and the like did work in magical spaces just fine, it was the old order that claimed they did not. In fact the old order viewed muggle technology much the same way muggles had viewed magicals at one time. Yet now there were signs that both worlds could live together though the magical culture was dominate in magical circles, and children raised in the magical world learned about it from a very young age.

That was neither here or there for the moment, as Delphi sighed, got up and walked to a chalkboard that had equations scattered all over it. She went and sat down and sighed, she was good at Athrimancy, most of her class had been but this, this was different. She turned to another young man, only a year or so older than her with dark red hair and blue eyes. This was Evan Jigger, the youngest son in that ancient family. He walked up to the board and added a few things but Delphi was still lost, she could fight, knew several languages and was a professor at Hogwarts with masteries under her belt but quantum physics was giving her a headache. She did not understand how it effected reality and how magic was really people, animals and plants connecting to it more than others.

"Your theory is sound, but I still don't understand." Delphi said, "but I still can't see how this works."

"It does and it proves magic is not magic at all, we are just born with an ability to tap into the quantum realm if you will far more closely than anything else." Evan replied, "look, there is still morality for even on the quantum level there are things you should not do, the law of good and evil are even there, but we have an ability to tap into this power, some more than others."

"Like headmaster Dumbledore." Narcissa said, "I like this theory, I never thought I would say that but I have always been curious as to why we can do what we do. If it is just about tapping into the quantum realm, to me that makes since."

"This is science, you like science?" Delphi asked.

"I do, ever since I learned the muggles had tapped into alchemy and split an atom, well I wanted to learn what the world was about. So while I was under house arrest I studied and learned and I find this fascinating." Narcissa replied, "what we do is subconscious in a way, and we do learn to manipulate this in a way that bends reality."

"Very good, ten points to Slytherin." McGonagall said walking up, "all this learning, I was going to retire but I see so many wishing to learn I could not walk away, and yes the quantum realm is where we get our powers, Albus and I would talk of this, Albus would talk to Einstein too."

This did not surprise Delphi, though Einstein was not a magical, he would have known some who were. There were many magical people who studied muggle science, but not splitting the atom, they drew the line at that. Many unspeakables were scientists themselves. Delphi was not one and that was okay, she had done other things as an unspeakable, mostly as a curse breaker. She smiled, life was far better than she ever could hope and things could have gone very differently for her if her parents had not done what they did. Now she was teaching at Hogwarts and having a wonderful conversation about quantum physics and though she did not understand she was enjoying herself.

So yes, Narcissa knows and Delphi is not upset. Lucius is not trying to hit on her, he is a peacock and has a fine form and well likes to strut around shirtless if he can get away with it. He has been a very bad man and the punishment Harry came up with was perfect, now Lucius is learning to use his influence for good not evil and others know not to cross Harry as well, he will get creative.

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