Summary:

Hermione, now in her 7th year at Hogwarts, faces the stress of the upcoming battle between the dark and the light, decides to take a stroll around the grounds to get some fresh air, only to encounter a small puppy whimpering by a tree with a note. Under the circumstances, she takes in the pup, only to have a surprise when the moon sets and reveals a baby no older than 3 months. Hermione herself is now almost 20 years old, due to her excessive time turner use, and only knows one man who could help her with her new situation.

Title- Moonlight surprises.

Pairing: Remus/Hermione/Harry

By: Spelldrift

Disclaimer- "Harry Potter" belongs to J.K Rowling, thought the plot ish all mines :3

A.N- I hope you guys enjoy the story as I have enjoyed writing it. And Dumbledore did not die in this instance, and he is mainly a good guy, a little forceful, but good.

Gryffindor Common room- Hermione's point of view

I sat silently on the plush armchair facing the fire, letting the fires heat soak into me, Ron and harry were taking a rest on the rug in front of the hearth, a well deserved rest after all the battle planning they've been going over for the past 4 hours after dinner.

Harry lay on his side, his eternally messy hair falling into his eyes, In need o f a cut again, with his arm cradling his head, his other arm lay by his mouth, his features though were completely lax, making him seem years younger than when he's awake. The upcoming battle between Voldemort and himself took a great toll on him, knowing it all rested on his shoulders. I frowned, I wish more than anything I could take his place and let him have a happy life, the Gods knew he deserved happiness more than anyone else in this world.

My attention drew from Harry to Ron, who at moment was snoring rather loudly, I smiled in general affection, though I did not love Ron in the sense that I wanted to be with him as most people generally thought. He was just Ron to me, but both of these boys were my very best friends, and always will be, but the war was taking a taxing toll on everyone. We all tried to hide it, but we can never hide the bags under our eyes, and the general fear in our eyes, never knowing what is going to happen next.

I sighed, looked at my watch and noticed it was almost 11 pm, not feeling tired enough for bed, I detangled my legs from the sofas leg tassels and headed out of the common room, opening the fat lady's portrait softly, so as to not wake her, she snuffle slightly in her sleep, but otherwise did not wake.

Knowing filch was on the other side of the castle I took my pace slow, and headed out for the lake, knowing the waves from the shore would calm me enough to lull me to sleep when I got back. Hagrid's hut was lit from the inside, indicating he was still awake, made me cautious knowing Fang would alert him to my presence if I were not careful. I made a detour around the hut, downwind so fang would not smell me and start barking like mad.

As I walked near a cluster of trees, I began to realize this "walk" could be dangerous, but shrugged it off, weariness making me less edgy. As I near the lake, the cluster of tress began to filter off, and I noticed or rather heard a soft whimpering.

More curious than afraid I made my way over to the sound only to discover a small form at the base of a rather large tree near the lake. As I walked closer, the small form revealed its self to be a small dog, no, a puppy who was shivering violently, and then I noticed the biting wind coming from in the direction of the lake.

Throwing caution to the wind, I gathered the puppy in my arms, and started rubbing it's sides to generate heat to help warm the poor thing up, tucking the puppy inside my warm down layered robes, I noticed a note lying near the base of the tree, bearing no name. I looked around to see if the person who left the puppy was still in the area, but noticed no one, when a bright light suddenly appeared in the enclosure of trees I panicked only to realize the moon has come out of hiding behind the clouds. I sighed in relief and got into a more comfortable position against the tree.

Opening the note, I started to read the contents:

Dear stranger:

As much as I hate to leave my beloved puppy, he is no longer safe in my company, for I have many enemies, and would rather he live with someone else than die with me of a premature death. His name is Luca, and he is but 3 and half months old, his birthday is December 3, 1998, and I entrust you with him to keep him safe, though tread cautiously, he has the curse of lycanthropy such as myself. For as you may now realize why I can no longer keep him with the new Criticism of Creatures bill the ministry has passed so dispassionately during these trying times. Please take care of him for me.

Grateful for eternity,

A loving mother

After reading the note, with some tears in my eyes, I folded the note in my pockets, I felt a sharp nip on my stomach, and felt a sickening feeling of dread. I jerked open my robe to see the puppy looking at me with shame, I quickly realized it only wanted my attention when it realized that I was preoccupied with the letter, it gently licked the nip it afflicted on my belly and I couldn't be angry with him. After reading up on werewolves after I learned of Remus, this was a normal action for a young werewolf to get its mothers attention.

I smiled at him, and realized I knew him name, Luca, and gently sat back with him sitting on my stomach, I began to hum to get him to settle down now that he was warmed up and feeling better, when he settled down into a small ball to sleep. I gathered him up into my robes and picked myself up from the ground and started to walk back to the castle.

When I got back to the common room Harry and Ron apparently had gotten up and gone to bed, thinking I did the very same thing. I smiled at the little lump that was sleeping inside of my robe and glided over to the girl's staircase to get to sleep myself.

I half suspected the stair case to magically reject the little puppy I held in my arms, but it didn't and I went all the way up without mishap, musing on whether or not it had to do with age whether or not the opposite sex could come up to the girls dorms.

I slipped into my bed noticing the other girls didn't even notice me come in, I sighed in relief, knowing it would be hard to keep the commotion from happening once the discovered my little bundle.

I kept my coat on, it was a bit chilly and the little puppy/ boy as he would turn out to be in a matter of minutes would not get cold during the night, and would have ample coverage when he woke up.

I sat in bed, waiting for the full moon to set, keeping him on my stomach so he would not be too uncomfortable, and watched as he snuffled slightly in his sleep, curling further into my warmth. And I wondered why he accepted me so readily, knowing a mother werewolves scent is engraved upon them as soon as their born, I eventually came the conclusion that my scent was either similar to his mothers or he scented Remus's scent on me from his visit earlier. I immediately felt a pang of sadness, and wondered if the boy would remember his mother or miss her.

I was jarred out of my thoughts when he began to transform into his human form. The light brown fur began to recede and his limbs and bones contorted to that of a human, and I was amazed at the likeness of our features. The baby, as he was only 3 months old, had light brown hair that curled at the end, the very same color as mine, his slightly tan skin the same shade as mine, took me aback, and I realized many people might think Luca to be MY baby.

And suddenly I didn't care, I was already attached to the baby and my instincts kicked in, seemingly out of nowhere, when he began to sniffle and whimper, I immediately conjured up a small t-shirt and diaper with my wand and went through the task of dressing him.

When I finished, I lay on my side and brought him towards my stomach, which he immediately snuggle into and calmed and began drifting to sleep. I placed the blanket around him and settled in myself, and began to drift to sleep, a content smile on my face.

In the morning-

I awoke to Parvati's and Lavenders faces peering over my shoulder, goofy smiled on their faces, and last night's events came back in a whoosh, and I sat up and looked down towards Luca who was still sleeping, his fist curled around my shirt, liking to keep in contact with me.

Lavender made an Ahem noise and I looked towards her and realized I was smiling, rather goofily. I gathered Luca up and cradled him in my arms and sat up, making a silent motion with my hands indicating to be quite, they gathered around me on the bed.

"Hermione! I didn't know you had a kid!" Lavender asked in a whisper

"Yeah! You must have hidden it very well for us to not notice! Who is the father?" Parvati asked in the same whisper.

"Calm down you two, you might wake Luca, and the father? That'll be my secret." I said with a secret smile, going along with their assumptions, already considering Luca mine.

The two girls seemed to understand, but Luca stirred anyway and began to whimper and I realized he needed to be changed, I smiled at the girls and excused myself and headed to the bathroom. When in the privacy on the bathroom, I quickly conjured up a diaper and wipes and changed Luca quickly to satisfy him.

After changing his diaper he immediately calmed down and smiled up at me, and gurgled his happiness and being clean once more, and I smiled, completely disarmed by his adorableness.

I quickly conjured up a blue one-piece outfit for him to wear from a blanket, form the linens closet, realizing I would have to go shopping for him soon.

I gently picked him and he immediately latched onto my pajama top, and started to make noises, taking this as a sign that he was hungry, I quickly went back to my trunk and put on my school clothes, glad the girls had gone down to breakfast already.

I looked over to Luca who was lying on my bed playing with his toes, I smiled and went over to him and he smiled cheekily back to me and latched onto my finger which I present to him after he let go of his toes.

He waved it around and cooed, then frowned slightly. Hearing a slight grumble coming from his tummy I gathered him up and headed down to the kitchens to get him formula to feed him.

Luckily Ron and Harry had already gone down to breakfast and I stealthily made my way to kitchens, not wanting to be confronted and asked as to why I had a baby in my possession.

Upon arriving to the kitchen I was immediately seen to by a house elf, who came back with a bottle of baby formula which was just the right temperature upon me testing and turned to Luca who seemed confused as to what the bottle was.

I immediately blushed, not considering that he might have been breast fed, I gathered him up and pressed the bottle his lips which he opened his mouth to, upon giving an experimental suck from the bottle he immediately warmed up to the bottle seeing as it presented him with food.

He drank the formula hungrily and only after he was down, he gave a little sigh and his eyelids drooped slightly with drowsiness from a full stomach. I gently situated him on my shoulder and patted his back to get him to burp, which he did quite readily and was gurgling happily after doing so.

I then went up the elf that had given me the bottle and requested if I could get a container of the formula for later, the elf complied and came back with a large container and smiled up at me.

"You have a lovely baby there miss, looks just like Ye!" the house elf grinned and I smiled back and thanked him and went on my way to the Great Hall.

Upon arriving to the door to the Great Hall, I cradled Luca in the crook of my arm, and walked bravely towards the teacher's area at the front of the Hall, knowing I was going to be seen and rumored about. Immediately the Hall quieted and followed my every mood, soon loud whisper could be heard, but I kept a slow pace so as to not Jar Luca.

Dumbledore's eyes twinkled in that certain way that was always associated with him. He smiled down at me when I reached him and seemed to see right through me.

"Ah ,Ms Granger, so lovely to see you, and who's this little one who bears such a likeness to you?"

"I found him near the lake Sir, he was abandoned by his mother, and I took him in, I do hope its alright, I'm quite attached to him already." I smiled down at Luca who was looking at Dumbledore curiously.

"I dare say why you can't, you're well past the age to be able to make decisions for yourself seeing as your now almost 20 years old, I dare say the oldest 7th year we've ever had." Dumbledore said with a laugh

I nodded my head, not in the least bit ashamed of my time turner use, as it had saved lives and lost time.

"Sir, I might need to make a trip to Hogsmeade to get Luca some baby things and supplies, I hope you don't mind me going." I said with an embarrassed air.

Dumbledore nodded and waved his hand, and looked more intently at Luca, his smile widening.

"Now, Ms Granger, is there something about Luca that you need to tell me about?" Dumbledore asked with a twitching smile.

I glanced at the other teachers noticing that they were all vividly watching me and listening to our conversation as was the whole entire Hall with interest.

"Yes, there is a fact that you might need to know about my little Luca, as a matter of fact, he's a lycanthrope." At this, the whole Hall erupted in a cacophony of noise and the teachers began to murmur.

Dumbledore quieted the hall with a sweeping motion of his hand, and turned toward Luca and me, "Now Ms. Granger, do you know what you're going into? And what responsibilities you will have with this child?"

I nodded, he seemed to accept this as a good response, and closed his eyes for a moment and looked at me with a smile, and I knew without a doubt he was planning something.

"I happen to know of a man who might be able to help you…"

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