Chapter 348: Sovereign and Subject, Father and Son

Hofa was just an insignificant passerby. His saying this sentence at most counted as a suggestion. But in the ears of Sirius and Sineipu, this was Harry himself agreeing to this matter.

Sirius immediately reminded in a tone of watching the fun: "Yes, if it's just doing a test. But I am a bit worried that this will require us to provide hair or blood or something. You know, this might be a bit sensitive for wizards."

Harry heard the reminder in his words and also felt a bit regretful for his recklessness. Moreover, he noticed that Bella's eyes also gradually calmed down. She also seemed to be a bit hesitant.

"The Dark Lord said we cannot harm Harry," Snape said slowly, "and, I think we know without him saying it, we cannot harm Delphini even more."

"If we do a paternity test, it indeed requires hair or blood... blood is best," William said, then stopped speaking. "Actually, the Magical Congress doesn't need to harm these two, and there is no benefit, but I know it is a very difficult thing to make you believe me."

"If we do it ourselves?" Lu Xiusi suggested. "Quietly, using a fake name."

"The Magical Congress doesn't have the motive and benefit to harm Harry or Delphini," Snape shook his head. "But everyone present, I'm afraid all have it, right?"

"I feel this question seems familiar. We need a trusted person of our own," Sirius said thoughtfully.

"He will definitely not harm Delphini or Harry, and has no interest relationship with Delphini or Harry, and will not favor anyone because of this," Lucius gradually understood. "We also have to guard against the Phoenix Society, so it's best to use someone they don't know."

Four eyes gradually focused on Harry, and then other gazes also ran to him.

"Are you talking about me?" Harry pointed at Hofa, unable to laugh or cry.

"To some extent, you seem to be the person with the most sense of honor among us," William also said somewhat reluctantly. "Perhaps you are really doing the Dark Lord's cause as a lofty ideal."

The Death Eaters had one good point, that was they were not hypocritical in front of their own people. At this time, hearing William's evaluation of Hofa, they all nodded seriously.

"I believe you will not harm the Dark Lord's offspring," Bella used a gentle tone for a rare time.

"You probably won't favor anyone either..." William pondered. "Anyway, I just want to confirm, as long as we don't fall into Deng Buliduo's trap, it's fine."

"Severus, it's not difficult for you to take a hair of Harry from Hogwarts, right?" Lu Xiusi asked.

"I will give you a hair of Delphini when I have a meeting next time," Bella echoed.

"Then fine, I will do this matter," Harry hesitated deliberately. "I will find a testing agency in Europe, disguise myself as a husband who suspects his wife of cheating, quietly, anonymously do that paternity test—you are sure it's called a paternity test, right? And you are also sure that just using two hairs is enough?"

"Yes, you can say directly that you want to find a DNA test," William reminded kindly. "When the time comes, show us the report, I can also help you see if there is any mistake."

"Then I will take the hair when I have a meeting next time. I can go find this agency this week," Harry nodded pretentiously.

When the meeting was dismissed, Sineipu gave Sirius a wink, so the three of them didn't completely dismiss the meeting, but gathered again in Sirius's office.

"I admit, your means have grown," Sineipu said. "Did you think of letting Hofa do the test from the beginning? You could have pulled Luo Nade and Jin Ni's hair to test."

"Uh, to be precise," Harry's face revealed a trace of embarrassment, "I suddenly thought, Voldemort only had Delphini after his resurrection, right?"

"Yes," Sineipu looked a bit confused.

"And when he was resurrected, he used my blood. The genes of this body of his might also be my genes," Harry told his guess. "Even if I use my and Delphini's hair to test, it is very likely that it will be detected that we indeed have a blood relationship."

"But he also used his father's bone and his servant's flesh!" Sineipu said angrily. "Who can be sure whose genes those are? Do you know this is a very risky thing!"

"Indeed, we originally had a lot of room to discuss slowly, but if the test goes wrong, it won't be easy to end," Sirius also had lingering fears. "I originally wanted to use the sensitivity of body parts to persuade Bella to give up, but somehow it turned to Hofa. It can be considered a lucky hit."

"But how can there be so many genes in a person? Mine, Voldemort's father's, and his servant's?" Harry counted on his fingers. "And the resurrected Voldemort is still in his own appearance?"

"A person has four sets of genes, then you can be considered Voldemort's maternal grandfather," Sirius said happily. "Bella should call you great-grandfather, you really have a blood relationship."

"What a mess," Snape shook his head. "If you are curious, you can check the relationship between you and Delphini. But for the sake of insurance, you do another one. In case you have no relationship with Delphini, hand in the report of Ron and Ginny."

"By the way, do the whole set of acting, go to Paris to find an agency to do it," Sirius reminded. "Hofa's persona is living in seclusion in Annecy."

This was also a quite exciting weekend. After Harry returned to Hogwarts, his first thing was to ask Luo Nade and Jin Ni for hair, and then began to write a letter to the old butler of Tang Dun, asking him to contact the paternity testing agency.

After the new week started, Anuo De issued a new announcement: because Friday was changed to Ministry of Magic internship, the guest public lecture was moved to Saturday morning, and roll call was cancelled.

"Actually, this is a very good change. Children are not interested in every teacher," Harry commented. "But if you happen to meet a teacher you are interested in, you can use an afternoon to communicate more with him."

"Yes, perhaps I will be interested. This week's is... wow!" Luo Nade leaned close to the notice, then exclaimed.

"Clara Oswald!" After Harry saw the name clearly, he also couldn't help but shout in surprise.

"Ho, look at you two," Ailina appeared from nowhere and mocked. "If Clara were a white-haired uncle, I see if you would still be interested in math, physics, and chemistry."

No matter what assumption she made, the fact was that Clara Oswald, the Muggle Studies professor who was proficient in Muggle science, was indeed a beautiful lady who loved to wear short skirts, which led many students to not be so repelled by Muggle science.

Harry was quite happy to see her again, not only because of the wonderful times in his childhood, but also because he himself was full of nostalgia for his experience at Beauxbatons last year. This made him often lose focus this week—it didn't matter when attending class or slacking off in the Minister's office, it's just that he also slacked off when practicing Occlumency, causing Harry to be scolded fiercely by Sineipu again.

On Friday night, Harry and Luo Nade discussed Clara happily, as well as the Muggle knowledge she had taught, and recalled the happy times during the Triwizard Tournament. They didn't notice when Nawei came in. When Harry discovered Nawei returned, he was already sitting on the bed, staring at that beetle pin for a long time.

"Oh, Nawei, did you have any harvest today?" Harry asked.

"Deng Buliduo... he might indeed be reminding me," Nawei stroked the pin. "When I was walking in the Department of Mysteries today, I kept paying attention to its changes. Sure enough, when passing a door, the white mist inside the bead began to churn."

Harry leaned over to look. At this time, the bead embedded in the tail of the beetle was motionless, and the white mist-like things inside were completely static.

"Well, having clues is always a good thing," Luo Nade patted his shoulder comfortingly. "Next week you can consider how to pry open that door."

"How do you know I didn't pry it open?" Nawei couldn't help laughing.

"I know you definitely went to pry it, if you didn't say it, that means you didn't pry it open," Luo Nade also laughed.

"I remember, Sirius gave me a knife that can pick locks," Harry began to rummage through his cabinet.

"Thank you, but I hope to face it myself," Nawei said sincerely. "Perhaps this is another test Deng Buliduo left for me. If I can solve it independently, then there will be no regrets."

"Ha," Harry shrugged, his mind drifted to the public lecture the next day. "Whatever you want."

On Saturday morning, under the bright sunshine, Clara stood in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom (the Muggle Studies classroom was too small for the number of people present), and wrote a line on the blackboard.

"Biology and Genetics—Basic Principles."

"Hello everyone, I am Clara Oswin Oswald..." Clara made an ordinary opening remark. Harry noticed that her mood didn't seem very high.

"... Then when we talk about human genetics, we need to mention chromosomes. Summarily speaking, all human genetic information exists in chromosomes, among which there are 22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes. Currently, Muggles have initially cracked the mystery of chromosomes. They are planning to conduct human genome sequencing. If this vast project can be completed, then in time, we can know which race a person belongs to just by a hair, and even further, know what proportion of bloodline he has on him. If the genes of wizards and Muggles are indeed different, we can even strictly define how much Muggle blood each half-blood wizard has mixed."

Among a large group of drowsy or distracted children, Harry suddenly raised his head. He realized that this was one of the few wizards who truly understood the principle of paternity testing, and finding her to give a public lecture was obviously Sineipu's cautious move. ===== CHAPTER 349 =====