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sofoulandfairaday · 2 years

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Any headcanons for Delphi? :)

Mmmhh, this is a tough one since I don't really like the idea of Bella and Voldemort having kids (for various reasons, maybe I'll do a separate post about why).

Also, I read CC a long time ago and while I remember what happens, I also remember that the part about Delphi made my blood boil from the injustice that was her life. It irks me and irritates me to even think about it, both from the waste of the character and how she was treated. Also, I don't think she was a very well-written character at all (but none of them was in that play, so...)

For these reasons, and also because I try to not diverge too much from what we know in the canon, my HCs are about Delphi's conception and birth. If you want some about how the story actually went or about some AU where Bella and Vold live, I can do a part 2.

Delphi was a mistake. I don't care what anyone thinks or says, there is no way Voldemort planned her unless he wanted to cut her up and use her for some dark magic ritual where he needed his own flesh (sorry for the extremely gruesome image, but it's the truth). I think that both Voldemort and Bellatrix had just assumed it was impossible for them to conceive: a post-rebirth humanoid body couldn't possibly produce fertile sperm in Voldemort's mind, just like a battered, beaten body, put through fourteen years of torture in Azkaban couldn't possibly be fertile, let alone carry to term safely, in Bellatrix's mind. Ironically, they never had doubts about the other, although they were convinced the other had doubts about them.

It happens when they are not being careful, especially Bellatrix (who was the one that took contraceptives during the first war) since she isn't having regular periods and is very weak. Normally, witches at her age are still perfectly capable of having kids, but she had had problems in the past.

Neither of them takes it very well, at first.

Bellatrix does not want to become a mother. No, sir, she does not. She is Bellatrix, a female warrior, who wants to go into battle and bring the wrath of the gods, fire and blood, down upon her enemies. She never wanted kids, she doesn't want this one.

Bellatrix also doesn't want to be a mother. And the two are different. You see, I headcanon Bella as having a difficult relationship with her sex. Not because she doesn't like being a woman, but because she feels constrained in the stereotypical roles of womanhood, which she sought always to break from.

Once, when Druella was expecting her fourth and last child (a boy, who died a few days after birth), she had a conversation similar to that of Aemma and Rhaenyra in the first episode of HOTD. She told her eldest daughter, who was nine at the time, that sooner or later she would be laying in the birthing bed as that was her duty as a pureblood woman.

Bellatrix replied that she would rather be a warrior, destined for battles and glory. When Druella told her, half-scandalised half-worried, that warriors often died in battle, Bella answered that ladies died in childbirth, which to her was much worse.

Bellatrix has a series of crises and doubts regarding (in no particular order): her role as a mother, her relationship with the dark lord, her place in the DE ranks, the birth itself, her marriage with Rodolphus, her life after that, the sex of the baby, and much much more. The fact that no one explores them in fanfiction in the proper, deep, correct way irks me.

She concealed her pregnancy in the first months when it could still be done, and then she just disappeared for a while.

Bellatrix was the most pretentious mother-to-be in the world, with the most difficult cravings to satisfy. She accepted nothing but the best.

Bellatrix was sure her feelings towards the child wouldn't change whether it was a boy or a girl. With that being said, she hoped for a boy. The thought of a little Dark Lord, who was just like his father but who truly loved her and was devoted to her, was one of the main ideas that led her to accept the pregnancy. I think she thought raising a boy would be much easier, and something she would have more help with (Rodolphus & Rabastan, the DL himself, Narcissa who had already raised a son albeit a weakly one). There was also the idea of the Black inheritance. With a son who turned out stronger than Draco, she could provide an actual heir to the House of Black, something her parents had failed to do.

Also, Bella spent most of her adult life around men. She probably would have an idea of how to raise a son, how she would want him to be, and very few on how to raise a girl.

Of course, she would want a warrior for a daughter. Except what if her daughter didn't want to be? What if this daughter turned out like Narcissa, a housewife who barely uses complex magic these days? (I feel that Bella has some ingrained sexism inside of her, which I particularly like because it makes her even more complex). What if she marries an idiot like Lucius? Even worse, what if she runs away with a Mudblood like Andromeda? Oh, Bella would kill her with her own hands if that were the case! Her own mother had wanted someone more like Narcissa, someone less involved in the bloodshed and more in the politics. Bellatrix had suffered because her mother just wouldn't understand what the right choice was! What if her daughter was the same? What if her daughter felt the same about her? What if her daughter broke her heart the same way Andromeda had broken her mother's? What if she broke her daughter's heart?

Bellatrix wants a boy. Boys are more simple. (They're really not, but Bellatrix doesn't realize that).

On the other hand, Voldemort despises the idea of having a son. What if the child looks like Tom Riddle? What if the child tries to usurp him? Nope. He wants a daughter that looks like Bellatrix and has her loyalty.

He gets a daughter that looks like Bellatrix.

Bellatrix is also overjoyed because LV tells her he was hoping for a girl and that she has made him proud.

The moment she holds her daughter in her arms, she feels pride and love like never before because that is the blood of Salazar Slytherin and her Lord and her family all together and she is absolutely perfect.

She got to name the child and she respected the Black Family traditions (Voldemort doesn't concern himself with baby names, and definitely didn't have a family name he wished to bestow upon his child).

I have no idea why she chose Delphini, since dolphins are intelligent, playful, and friendly creatures (not the primary qualities Bella would have wanted for her child), and both the myths about the birth of this constellation do not fit these characters' stories at all. So, I think she did it because of another reason. The two main stars in the Delphinus constellation are Sualocin and Rotanev. When read backwards they give the name Nicolaus Venator, the Latin translation of the name Nicolò Cacciatore. He was an astronomer (and I headcanon him as a wizard, at this point) and the only man who ever got away with naming not one, but two stars after himself. I think Bellatrix would have been fascinated with this story, with this man who literally wrote his name in the stars. That's why she chose it.

The labour was difficult, and so was the pregnancy.

The child could understand her father speaking to her in Parseltongue, in the womb. Voldemort sometimes did that, just to make sure the child inherited that ability of his.

Voldemort was not present for the birth. He was in the room farthest from it and still, he could hear the screams and they reminded him of Wool's (where sometimes unfortunate girls like his mother turned up pregnant and in need of help; most died). He hated it.

Rodolphus, however, paced up and down outside of the room, and he still hadn't made up his mind on how to feel about the whole situation. (I find the whole thought of them being one big happy family a bit too fluffy and unrealistic).

LV was genuinely worried that Bellatrix would die and steeled himself by thinking there was no woman in the world more different from his mother.

There were also other worries: what if it was born dead, sick, deformed, slow... a squib, like his mother?

But it was the most perfect, healthy, baby girl.

She was NOT blonde.

Like Harry Potter, she too had her mother's eyes.

#there you go #i hope these were good #they're not my best headcanons but i'm still quite sure they are accurate #bellamort #bellatrix lestrange #lord voldemort #tom riddle #bellatrix black #bellatrix x voldemort #druella black #narcissa malfoy #delphi riddle #delphini riddle #delphini diggory #harry potter #death eaters

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briardatura · 1 year

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Sometimes I forget that the actual plot of The Cursed Child is that Voldemort had a secret daughter with Bellatrix, and she's trying to resurrect Voldemort so she can meet her father. I wish I was kidding.

#harry potter #harry potter the cursed child #the cursed child #delphi #delphini lestrange #delphini riddle #delphini diggory

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isitbymistakeordesign · 1 year

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Traditional art Delphi

#sketch #delphini diggory #delphini black #delphini riddle #delphini lestrange

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capriddle · 4 months

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Delphi Riddle Aesthetic

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fuokir · 7 months

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Very quick and lazy sketch, but I really wanted to draw something with them 😭😭😭

#delphi diggory #delphini #noctua cowell #hp oc #harry potter au #harry potter oc #harry potter fandom #Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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cursedchildsupremacy · 4 months

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She was a fairy ✨🧚

#cursed child #harry potter and the cursed child #hpcc #albus severus potter #scorpius malfoy #delphini riddle #delphi diggory #delphi riddle

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drawinggoose · 4 months

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Here it is, the cursed child of my imagination. Based on my ridiculous dream, as written here. It's ugly, stupid and looks half-finished, but it's mine and I still love it.

#harry potter #harry potter and the cursed child #harry potter series #delphi diggory #delphini #delphi riddle #ron weasley #hermione granger #lord voldemort #harry potter characters #my art #my artwork #stupid dreams

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justaslytherclawgirl · 1 year

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I'm sorry, but what the fucking fuck is this...

Did they just implied that Voldemort was an idiot who sent his best death eater to maternity leave in the middle of a war, because why not, or am I just stupid?

#wizarding world #harry potter #bellamort #bellatrix lestrange #voldemort #delphi diggory #delphini

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rewritingcanon · 2 months

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delphi’s evil laughter when shes been found out as the augurey is the vibe i bring to the function

#shes so evil i like her lots #delphini riddle #harry potter #hp #hpcc #cursed child #harry potter and the cursed child #delphini diggory #delphi riddle #delphi diggory #rewriting

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sofoulandfairaday · 2 years

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How do you think Delphi felt about Narcissa?

I think she could possibly be the only person she could hate more than Harry

Dear Anon, I fear I cannot really answer this question with lots of stone-cold canon facts, simply because Delphi's characterization is so lacking. It makes so little sense it gives me a headache just thinking about it.

First of all, people have to understand that Delphi is a minor character in a play. This in itself means that she would have little psychological complexity, even if the play were the best written ever (which it is certainly not). The play would have had to be entirely about her to do her justice, especially since she is a new character in a world of extremely complex ones, and has to be built from the ground up.

With this being said, if we were to take at face value what is written on the page, and how she is characterized there, yes, Narcissa probably would qualify as the person she hated the most. I've read CC a long time ago, but I seem to recall that Delphi only seems obsessed with her father, only naming her mother once. We don't know how she would have felt about her (and some explicitly characterize Delphi with a big Oedipus complex in fanfiction, or in open competition with her mother as the Dark Lord's "favourite", which I cannot really judge as unrealistic because, again, we don't know anything about her) so I will not presume that she would punish Narcissa for betraying Bellatrix.

What seems absurd to me is that during the play we are never informed of Lucius and Narcissa's death in extremely suspicious circumstances. We know she was powerful, we know she can be sneaky, Lucius and Cissy aren't in their prime... I don't know why she wouldn't exact revenge on them for betraying her father and causing his death. We know that she was born at Malfoy Manor "shortly before the Battle of Hogwarts", whatever that means, and Euphemia Rowle only took her in because she was offered gold. Whose gold?! Rodolphus'? There is no way minister Shacklebolt didn't seize the assets of the Lestrange family after the second fall of the Dark Lord seeing as, this time around, He had made enemies of the goblins as well. So it had to be the Malfoys'. Draco was also home for the Easter holidays in 1998 and I have no idea how they hid his baby cousin from him but whatever. But Lucius and Narcissa must have known.

This raises some very chilling questions. Narcissa might have hated Bellatrix at this point, Lucius and Draco felt even less love for her, and all three loathed the Dark Lord - but would they go as far as to abandon an innocent child? Maybe. It shocks me, seeing how protective they are of each other, but maybe that's just for immediate family. Just imagine how Lucius and Narcissa's trial at the end of the war would have gone if they had been found harbouring the Dark Lord's child. Also, all three of them were present at the end of the Battle of Hogwarts and I doubt they just allowed them to leave. The one that did disapparate away was Rodolphus (since most Death Eaters fled) and at this point, it seems reasonable he kidnapped the baby and brought her to Rowle for her own protection. Alright, fine. But did Narcissa really never visit her? Assure herself that the girl was happy and healthy? No, she just threw money at her and kept her out of her mind. That is cause for resentment enough for me, and I wish that it had been highlighted more in the actual play.

You see, the thing that I hated most about Delphi wasn't that she was evil. It was that she was evil for no reason at all. It says on her wiki that she inherited traits from her parents and that she was "cruel, sadistic, violent, manipulative, dominant, obsessive and cunning (it can also be said that she was talented and intelligent.) However, she had also inherited both her parents' explosive temper, blowing up whenever things didn't go her way." - First of all, already the fact that her only positive traits are in parentheses irritates me because it truly shows the black and white approach this play had to all its characters, coming from an author who had previously written that "the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters, we all have both light and dark inside of ourselves, what matters is the part we choose to act on". This play basically tells us: "Delphi is evil because her parents were Voldemort and Bellatrix, who were evil". Now. I call bullshit on this. Science is still divided on this, but most of the time we inherit traits from our parents because of nurture, not nature. Evil isn't always born, it's made. And even when it is born, we always have the capacity to choose something different.

Delphi never knew her parents. How is it possible that she was so much like them? Was it because she grew up allegedly abuse and, in any case, loveless? Fine, but say it. Why does Harry mock her in the end? Why, when confronted with a young woman crying and desperate because she just wanted to meet her father and be with him, does he tell her off cruelly and basically say "you'll rot in Azkaban"? Where is the understanding, the compassion? Even before knowing that she's killed someone Harry's reaction to Voldemort having a daughter is "no, no, no". But why??? Voldemort's not around to teach her. And by the way, even though researching your parents and your origin is natural, she has nothing of Voldemort. She never met him. She doesn't know him. Who told her tales of his greatness? Euphemia? Rodolphus? It surely wasn't fucking Narcissa.

And by the way, what was Narcissa even thinking? If Rodolphus knew about the prophecy, why didn't she? (And don't even get me started on that joke of a prophecy itself). And if she did, why didn't she inform anyone? She certainly didn't want the return of the Dark Lord. Why didn't she raise her sister's child, teaching her love and morals, while telling her that yes, she did betray her parents, but only because they were bad people and murderers? FUCKING LIE, CISSY, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. Tell her that stupid lie that everyone believes, that Voldemort couldn't love and so he wouldn't love her. That Bellatrix never showed interest in her. When Rodolphus shows up, she's more likely to think he's mad. Or better yet, do the right thing and tell her the truth. And apologise. Pretend you're sad you orphaned this child, but that you did it for a greater cause.

But the thing is, the Malfoys didn't have a good cause. They never stopped believing in blood supremacy and they disliked Astoria because she taught Scorpius that Muggle-borns and purebloods weren't different. They didn't betray Voldemort because he was a psychopath, they did it to save their own skin. Which of course wouldn't bode well with Delphi.

Maybe the play should have emphasized that by allowing another child to grow up loveless and estranged, lonely and scorned by everyone, just as Tom Riddle had, they created another monster.

((Also, just an additional note but since the only thing that changed in the alternate timeline was Cedric killing Neville, who then couldn't kill Nagini in the Battle of Hogwarts, it stands to reason that they still betrayed Voldemort. So why is fucking Draco Head of Magical Law Enforcement? Voldemort would have killed him in front of Lucius and Narcissa to make them pay. Whatever.))

They treat her with contempt, all of them, and it's not just because she's a murderer. Harry and the gang hate her for being Voldemort's child, which is incredibly out of character for all of them. She kills an irrelevant character to give them enough justification to throw her into Azkaban, which makes no sense. Why didn't she stun him? "Well, because she thought she was going to permanently change the timeline anyway". That's no excuse! Another thing this play gets horribly wrong (not just with Delphi, but also Albus and Scorpius) is that, just because the deaths the characters cause get undone, doesn't mean they're not real. Those were real people. And killing a person in real life is not that easy. If that was Delphi's first murder (since there's no suggestion that it wasn't), it could have not been that easy. And Delphi was not a psychopath, so it doesn't make sense as to why she would do it so nonchalantly. She shows empathy during the play. She loves her father (maybe? or maybe is just obsessed by what he represents and by the life she could have lived? do you know? I DON'T BECAUSE SHE'S SO BADLY WRITTEN).

Anyways, I just realized that I wrote a horribly long post ranting about stuff you didn't even ask me about, so I'll just end it here. What I'll say is that we better take Delphi as a cookie-cut cartoon villain, whose parents are who they are because it adds to the shock value. Because if we start poking at the inconsistencies in her character and that of those surrounding her the extremely fragile logic on which The Cursed Child stands on starts crumbling. If we were to analyse her more deeply, we'd find that this is a poor girl whose only fault was being born in the wrong family and that her aunt Narcissa is the one who ruined her life, carelessly abandoning her and leaving her to a lonely childhood, possibly prey of wronged death eater's delusions of grandeur and "what-could-have-been-if"s. All because she couldn't love a child she made an orphan.

#narcissa malfoy #delphini riddle #delphini diggory #the cursed child #lucius malfoy #draco malfoy #bellatrix lestrange #lord voldemort #rodolphus lestrange #harry potter #harry potter meta #hp meta #analyses #asks #rants

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thisissandpitturtle · 2 years

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Chapters: 8/48 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Delphi & Rodolphus Lestrange, Scorpius Malfoy & Albus Severus Potter, Delphi & Scorpius Malfoy & Albus Severus Potter, Albus Severus Potter & Harry Potter, Delphi & Albus Severus Potter, Harry Potter & Delphi Characters: Delphi (Harry Potter), Albus Severus Potter, Harry Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, Euphemia Rowle, Rodolphus Lestrange Additional Tags: Mostly Canon Compliant, some canon divergence, Hurt No Comfort, Angst, Heavy Angst, cursed child but from delphi's POV, Physical Disability, Disabled Character, Morally Grey Delphi, Flashbacks, Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Trauma, she has so much trauma, Homelessness, Hogwarts, time turners, Ministry of Magic (Harry Potter), this is going to be very long sorry, Sorry Not Sorry, again i have a soft spot for delphi, inconsistent updates, im a uni student plz bear with, i have no free time rn Summary:

- Cursed Child but from Delphi's perspective - Delphi Black has been living on the streets of London for almost five years after escaping sixteen years of abuse and manipulation. She had tried to shut out the memory of the prophecy for so long until it begins to creep up on her consciousness as things slowly go downhill. After living off pennies and relying on pickpocketing to survive, things turn for the worse. She chooses a dark path in hopes for a better life, attempting to fulfil the prophecy she was once destined to. By using Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, it seems she might finally succeed. She continually questions the morality of it all, wondering if she's falling down the same path as her parents. But she never could have thought just how far she would go all for the sake of the hope she so desperately clings to...

#delphi diggory #delphini riddle #Harry Potter and the cursed child #hpcc #cursed child #but it’s from Delphi’s pov

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isitbymistakeordesign · 9 months

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Hey

Delphini

#delphini #delphi diggory #fucken whatever #delphi riddle #i hate tagging her bc she doesnt have a canon name???#sketch

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capriddle · 3 months

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It makes me laugh a little that Delphi has some emo traits in her look. She has visibly dyed hair, with colored tips, dark denim and comfortable clothes, a choker necklace and dark makeup. Let's say that from the images released online I find her looking more like an emo muggle than a black witch.

#delphini riddle #delphi riddle #delphi diggory #the cursed child #harry potter and the cursed child #emo girl #dark witch

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anxiousfanchild · 10 months

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Introduction to My Harry Potter Imagines

Characters I can do:

1890s Hogwarts:

Ominius Gaunt

Sebastian Sallow

Garrath Weasley

Leander Prewett

Pre-Marauders:

Molly Prewett/Weasley

Bellatrix Black/Lestrange

Rita Skeeter

Arthur Weasley

Andromeda Black/Tonks

Lucius Malfoy

Narcissia Black/Malfoy

Gilderoy Lockhart

Alice Fortescue/Longbottom

Frank Longbottom

Ted Tonks

Marauders:

Sirius Black

Peter Pettigrew

Remus Lupin

James Potter

Lily Evans/Potter

Severus Snape

Bartemius Crouch Jr

Mary MacDonald

Dorcas Meadowes

Regulus Black

Evan Rosier

Pandora Rosier/Lovegood (or Lestrange, IDK what her canon last name is)

Xenophilius Lovegood

Marlene McKinnon

Golden Trio Era:

Harry Potter

Ronald Weasley

Hermione Granger/Weasley

Luna Lovegood/Scalamander

Ginerva Weasley/Potter

Draco Malfoy

Neville Longbottom

George Weasley

Fred Weasley

Percy Weasley

Bill Weasley

Charlie Weasley

Oliver Wood

Dean Thomas

Seamus Finnigan

Cedric Diggory

Blaise Zabini

Theodore Nott

Post Golden Trio: These stories will take place while each child is in at least 5th year. I've also added their Houses, just in case it is needed.

Victoire Weasley - Ravenclaw (Bill x Fleur)

Fred Weasley - Gryffindor (George x Angelina)

Molly Weasley - Gryffindor (Percy x Aubrey)

Dominique Weasley - Gryffindor (Bill x Fleur)

James Potter - Gryffindor (Ginny x Harry)

Louis Weasley - Ravenclaw (Bill x Fleur)

Lucy Weasley - Ravenclaw (Percy x Aubrey)

Rose Granger-Weasley - Gryffindor (Ron x Hermione)

Albus Potter - Slytherin (Ginny x Harry)

Roxanne Weasley - Gryffindor (Fred x Angelina)

Hugo Granger-Weasley - Gryffindor (Ron x Hermione)

Lily Potter - Gryffindor (Ginny x Harry)

Teddy Lupin - Hufflepuff (Remux x Tonks)

Non-Canon Characters:

Delphini Riddle: Post Golden Trio Era (Teddy's age, possibly a year older). Lovechild of Bellatrix and Voldemort

Mattheo Riddle: Marauders Era, Lovechild of Tom Riddle and an unnamed Witch.

Lorenzo Berkshire: Golden Trio Era

PLEASE NOTE: If there is a non-canon character or a character we as a fandom do not know a lot of canon facts about, I will write them how ***I*** see them!

MASTERLIST

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