Heads turned in the direction Julianna was looking. Many side conversations ceased instantly at the man standing in the doorway. His hair was a shining white-blonde. His cold gray eyes looked around at the students in turn. Lucius Malfoy walked forward, his eyes mainly on Professor Umbridge, who smiled sweetly at him as he drew closer to her.
"Good day to you," he said to her," I was on my way to work and decided to stop by and give my son a few of his things he forgot at home."
"Oh well if that is all you need," Umbridge said.
"Also there is one more thing," Lucius said; "I don't know how you deal with students that ditch, but I ran into the famous Harry Potter on my way down, and I am quite sure that this is the class he is supposed to be attending."
"Yes Lucius," Umbridge said," he has already been given a good talking to by our new students, and will be receiving a week's detention for spreading lies about the return of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."
"That's good to hear," said Lucius as he placed some items in front of Draco.
"And speaking of a good talking to I think Slytherin house deserves a good 20 points," Umbridge said.
The Slytherins cheered and clapped. Pansy tried to slap Jyoti on the back, but she caught her hand and held it where it stopped.
"Nothing personal, but don't touch me," Jyoti said.
Lucius looked at her and Julianna. Julianna noticed he had a strange look in his eyes.
"Is there something wrong,"Jyoti asked, noticing the look as well.
"Forgive me," Lucius said looking at Julianna," but you look like my wife."
"So I've heard," Julianna said.
"Father," said Draco," These are your nieces. You know the foreign ones?"
Lucius' jaw dropped slightly," Are you really?"
Umbridge cleared her throat impatiently.
" I'm sorry Dolores," Lucius said, "I will speak to them after class."
"Thank you," Umbridge said," There is only ten minutes of this class left."
Lucius took one last look around the room. His eyes rested for a moment on Hermione; her cheeks reddened, but she kept looking straight into his eyes.
Lucius turned and left the room.
"He's cute," Julianna whispered to Draco. Jyoti laughed and Draco blushed.
"That's your uncle you're talking about."
Julianna laughed," I know. I'm just saying he's cute."
Umbridge cleared her throat again. Julianna, Jyoti, and Draco silenced themselves and waited for the class to end. Finally after eight minutes of taking notes on various curses and their counter curses, the class was done. Lucius was waiting in the entrance hall for Draco, Jyoti, and Julianna.
"So you are the daughters of Bellatrix Lestrange," Lucius said. "Fudge told me Hogwarts was getting two foreign students with a disgrace for a mother. Had I known it was my own nieces I would have made him a disgrace of a minister."
Julianna and Jyoti looked at each other.
"Well at least one of you is related by blood. The other is adopted," Lucius said; " I believe you are the blood relative?" He looked at Julianna.
"Guilty," Julianna said," Jyoti is the adopted one."
"I don't have to ask if you are pure-blood," Lucius said to Jyoti," Bellatrix would never adopt a filthy half-blood."
"Thank goodness I'm not a half-blood," Jyoti said," I might as well be working with the house-elves down in the kitchens if I was."
Lucius and Draco smirked at each other.
"I can see from what Draco told me that you two are not afraid to face reality," Lucius said; "telling that Potter boy off the way you did."
"Well yeah," Julianna said, "He's so wrapped up in himself. The days before today, he would pass by us in the hallways and all we would hear is Voldemort this, or Voldemort that. Other times it was things about him. It was never about anything else."
Lucius looked a tad bit shocked hearing the name, but he overcame it quickly.
"Yes well he has problems facing the reality that the Dark Lord is not coming back and that his glory days are over."
"It's better to live with the truth then pretend it's something," Jyoti said, "I mean living with the truth just shows how strong a person is."
"I agree," Lucius said. "I must be going now, but before I depart I would like to personally invite the two of you to our estate for the Christmas holidays."
"Of course," said Jyoti.
"It's a date," said Julianna.
Lucius smiled. "Excellent. I will have guest rooms set up for you by then."
He turned and left. Since one could not apparate from inside Hogwarts, Lucius had to go outside the castle and do it. Within seconds he had disappeared.