Lily Evans looked at the test tube in her hands with a frown. Her research was progressing at an overwhelming pace. Every day she discovered something new. That's as good as it is bad.
She loved discovering new things. At the same time, it was stressful to have more and more things to study. She wished she could involve more people, but she didn't know any reliable people, apart from a few.
He left the vial with the swab obtained from Altair's oral cavity. Other tubes accompanied it, all perfectly labeled to maintain order in her laboratory. The results on Altair's paternity were interesting.
"Bellatrix is not her mother," she said into the air.
There was a certain blood and magical compatibility between parents and children. Between Bellatrix and Altair it was nil. She looked at the results of the magical electrophoresis frowning.
Lines of different thicknesses were on a plate. On the left side were those of Bellatrix, and on the right were those of Altair. There should be some correspondence between parents and children.
In the muggle world, electrophoresis is a way of discovering consanguinity between two people; it is used in paternity tests. In this method, a DNA sample is treated with other substances, and, by means of electric currents, it is separated from fragments of DNA according to size and charge. This process leaves a unique pattern—a genetic fingerprint.
The patterns between parents and children are not completely the same, but to indicate consanguinity both samples are analyzed and they have to bear a certain resemblance.
In the wizarding world the method is similar. Only the DNA is extracted in a different way to obtain a magical genetic fingerprint. This process is generally only done by goblins and is not studied by any wizard or witch, so it is not common knowledge in the wizarding world.
Lily Evans had her ways of learning it.
She wanted to analyze the genetic fingerprints of mother and son to compare them and be able to study the DNA that would correspond to Altair's father. Demonic magic.
The results: Bellatrix is not the mother!
Lily considered the possibility that someone else was his mother and the Black woman was just a cover. The boy was a Black, at least in appearance.
"Maybe his DNA mutated," she heard a beautiful voice say next to her. Her assistant was frowning as she went through her notes.
"It's... possible," the boy underwent a dark ritual when he was just a baby. Similar cases have been recorded. Once a baby in the Nott family underwent a ritual that damaged his genetic imprint. The family patriarch disemboweled his wife and baby. With time they discovered that the mutation was caused by the Carrow family.
If that is the case, his magic part only belongs to him, so it will be more difficult to know which part of the DNA is demonic.
Lily, who had so much to investigate, came up against a wall. Altair's blood alone was a source of information, but the data could not be analyzed correctly without separating normal magic from demonic magic.
"There is no sample of As-," Lily threw a silencio at her daughter.
"Names have power. More if the individual is paying attention to you." She reprimanded her gently. "And no. We don't have a sample of that thing," she didn't even dare to call someone capable of killing his son. "Not yet at least," the place where Altair confronted his father was not thoroughly investigated. It is possible to find some kind of sample. "Altair hit him, do you know if he managed to make him bleed?"
Harley shook her head. He decided not to talk to them about that night. In the castle, the students believed that he was attacked by a dark mage. Many whispered that his mother wanted him dead.
"He's been distant ever since."
"He needed to search the forbidden forest, I'll ask him to guide me," she didn't have much hope, after all, her father loved to use fire as a means of attack. On the other hand, what attacked Altair was not her father's complete form, but a clone. She didn't know how useful it would be in her research.
Anything was better than nothing, but if she didn't find the blood she would have to come up with another method to analyze its DNA. Lily couldn't tell the difference between demonic magic and normal magic, to her they were the same. 'For now', she thought.
"Mom... if Bellatrix isn't her mother, could she join his coven?" Lily looked at her, slightly shocked. "The same goes for Lyra... for Andromeda and Tonks, even the Malfoys, right?" Harley felt a hand touch her cheek. Her mother looked at her with worried eyes.
"What happened to my baby?" she asked, caressing her cheeks. Lily didn't seem so horrified by the idea.
"Do you think it's inappropriate?" she asked.
"When I studied demons, I discovered that they are not like humans. Even purebloods do not practice inbreeding so religiously. That Altair has a relationship with someone with whom she doesn't even share genes doesn't seem so strange to me," she finished speaking. Her gaze sharpened. "Before you ask, no, I will not join their coven. I think it's strange enough that Azalea wanted to join," Harley snorted.
"I still don't know why you stopped her."
"Because she would have joined just to look after you. It's a much more serious issue, it requires a genuine desire to be there, not just to join in for you. She'll be tied to him," her tone was serious.
"He's amazing, he can make her happy" she replied, blushing.
"Don't idolize a boy so much. In the end, you shouldn't let him be the center of your world," her mother scolded her bitterly. For a moment in her life, Lily was about to fall into that trap.
"Did you see him in class?" the girl seemed oblivious to her mother's words. "He cast every spell to perfection. Without tiring. Hermione's face when he bested her was incredible. Don't get me wrong, I love Hermione but she needs to relax a bit. Although I think it caused quite the opposite. She's been spending more and more time in the library and she has these horrible dark circles under her eyes, and even so she can't get over it," Harley seemed happy just talking about him.
"Harley. Do you know what an incredible witch you are?" her mother asked. The girl nodded hesitantly. "Never forget it. Never let any wizard make you feel inferior, even if is Altair."
"I know, Mom," the black-haired girl replied. Lily approved of the boy, but she knew that he did not reciprocate her daughter's feelings. He loved her, for sure. But not with the same intensity. The redhead didn't want her daughter to get hurt.
'Especially now,' she thought with a hint of pain.
Confronting his father and almost losing Bellatrix had made him lose control. The demon threatened the witches at his coven and Lily knew the burden he now carried. He wanted power to protect his beloved ones. Lily was also worried, she had even helped her father reinforce the castle.
Hogwarts had a defense against demons. No pure demon could enter the castle.
Asmodeus entered, dodging these defenses. He used a magical form of animagus and a clone. The castle defenses did not fully identify him as a demon.
Lily, together with her father, modified the defenses to prevent something similar from happening again. No creature with demonic magic was allowed.
Altair was an exception.
'I hope he doesn't get lost'.
At the end of the day the boy needed power and Lily knew how he was capable of getting it.
'In the end he'll break his promise, I just hope he doesn't hurt anyone in the process. A little casual sex isn't going to kill anyone. But with power comes responsibility', she wasn't talking about using his powers for good, but about not using them for evil. The world is already too fucked up for another mentally unbalanced and powerful person to emerge. Lily knew her father wouldn't allow it. She tried to talk to Altair but the boy seemed completely uninterested in the subject. Lily hoped Lavender could get him to talk.
"Mom," she heard her daughter. "Now that the research has stalled, can we go back to the space project? We've neglected it a lot lately," the recent research delayed its development.
"No. My head's not in it right now," Lily said regretfully. Her daughter had found a passion for space research and the redhead was annoyed that she couldn't do research with her. "Here," with a wave of her hand, she sent a thick book to her daughter. "Read it. I need you to understand the conditions needed to leave the atmosphere. The muggles have already done it, we, with magic, have to optimize that process. Go back to your common room and tell Hermione to come and see me, I need to talk to her." Lily knew what it was like to be outdone no matter how hard she tried. For someone who placed so much importance on school, being surpassed must have been a blow.
"Understood, captain," Harley waved as she left the room.
Harley left thinking about ways to lighten Altair's load.
'Maybe I can humiliate Ron. His new girlfriend seems to be devouring my teacher with her eyes'. Harley didn't know how Fay Dunbar had agreed to go out with Ron, but she would take advantage of it.
'I need to talk to Ginny too'.
Author: Patreon started to delete my chapters due to incest issues, that's why I made this chapter, the issue is not really mentioned again so you can think about the consanguine relationship as you wish.