[HPforGrownups] Re: When was Delphi born/conceived? (Cursed Child spoilers!)

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Dorothy:
While I haven't read the Cursed Child, I also can't see Voldemort with Bella.  He seems so dismissive of her other than her being one of his minions.  He is so obsessed with becoming alive again that I can't see him being with anyone, like he needs no one other than death eaters.
 

 Pippin:
 It doesn't have to have been a romantic relationship. My theory is that Delphi was conceived *because* 
 of the prophecy.  (We don't know when it was given.) Voldemort  wouldn't think that he could die, but he'd  found that being deprived of his body was almost as bad as Slughorn had warned him it would be. The prophecy would  warn him  that it might happen again, indeed that it *would* happen. 
 

 He discovered last time that his assumption that he could rely on his Death Eaters to swiftly find him and help him return to his body was mistaken. So, in considering a prophecy that he would return, he might have decided  a child of his could bring it about. 
 

 If Bella was already pregnant at the Ministry battle, or if Voldemort had already decided she should be the mother of his child,  it might explain why he bothered to rescue her even though he blamed her for the failure of the mission. I have always wondered about that. 
 

 I don't suppose a witch has to look pregnant if she doesn't want to. Perhaps she  could use a hair from her non-pregnant self and polyjuice to her former appearance?
 

 Pippin
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