A few days after the full moon, Hermione ventured down to the room. It was a dark room, rough concrete walls, hard stone floor a small bared window on one wall.

'Mione if you have changed your mind and don't want to do this, its fine, this is going to be hard for you to watch. And just doing the food will be enough for me, that did help make recovery easier.' he said as he put a hand on her shoulder.

'NO I'm good, I now know this has to be done for all that have been affected.' as she started writing her thoughts down.

The next 3 weeks was spent moving the door so Hermione could see all 3 corners. Special glass was ordered, bars added for extra safety.

The end of week finally came she went shopping for food and a few supplies from the local shops. Saturday was spent making a list with all of the new pens, notebook and a clipboard she had gotten. List of things to look for, a list for the foods she would give him. Sunday she fixed him a rare steak and four sunnyside up eggs. She ate her bowl of cereal.

'Well, is the steak good?'

'Um yes it's a richer flavor this time what cut is it?' he asked.

'So better than last time?'

'Yes why?'

'I went shopping and trying some different cuts, I will tell you on Thursday what you have been eating and your favorite cuts. Here fill this out.'

They spent the day in the library, with Hermione asking questions and writing her theories down.

Dinner was another rare steak and jacket potato, getting a not as good as this mornings.

Monday two more steaks cooked ranking them as 4 and 2 on list so far.

Tuesday they had fallen in to a routine eat a rare steak, then write out his likes and dislike about the plate.

'Sorry Mione I didn't like the peas, I liked the green beans last night better.' as she collected the plates.

'No that's fine, we need to find your likes and dislikes for the sides as well.'

'I did like the bone in tonight though, I hope me gnawing on the bone didn't bother you too much?'

'No would a bone during the night be good?'

'It does sound good, I can take this one down with me, and finish cleaning it off.'

'If you think it will help, keep you calm. You might be a little more agitated knowing I'm watching. Well go spend some time with Teddy to calm down even more.'

'Well are you ready? I'm sorry this will be hard for you to watch, but know I will wake up in a better state because of you, helping.' he turned and closed the new door behind him, as Hermione placed the wards. She pulled up a chair and sat with her clipboard and notebook. He couldn't see her but he knew she was standing there. He dropped the bone by the water bowl Hermione insisted, as he came out last month parched. He slowly undressed and placed his clothes in a small cubby hole in the wall. He then went and sat on the blankets Hermione had placed in there earlier. He smiled she thought of his comfort. She saw him twitch, then a grimace fell on his face. His ankles grew upwards, his face lengthened and hair started to sprout form everywhere. It didn't take long for the transformation to take effect. He was a very large beast, he howled towards the window. He ran frantic laps of the room looking for an escape jumping at the window and then jumping at the door hitting his shoulder hard, but resining himself to the enclosure after an hour of searching. He explored the room finding the bone and water bowl, taking a few laps of the cool water. His limping pace found his bed with the blankets, he proceeded to tear them to shreds but stopped and cocked his head, he picked up a scent and followed it to a blanket at the edge of his bed, he sniffed it deeply and laid down next to it and slept. He woke a little while later and limped a lap around the room, stopping at the door for a sniff and then continued around the room getting a drink and reached for the bone and returned to the bed snuggling in to the blanket and started to chew the bone clean. He finally fell asleep in the early hours of the morning. Hermione watched as the blanket changed shapes, His hocks shortened to ankles again, the hair disappeared and she assumed his face had shortened as it was covered.

'Winky can you cook that steak and eggs for me please?' as she removed the wards and unlocked the door and grabbing the skelly-gro and bruise balm. Winky had appeared with a tray. 'Thank you, Winky.'

Hermione went in and place the tray on the floor next to the bed, kneeling, she pulled the blankets back, poured a ration of skelly-gro for Remus to take.

'Hey you have to take this, I heard your shoulder break last night.' helping him. 'And this is for the massive bruising.' as she rubbed his shoulder. 'Now sleep and I will see you upstairs after you have gotten some more sleep.

'Thanks Mione.'

She turned and left the room, pulling the door to. She sat and started to write her notes and observations down. He woke and hour later. Stretching and finding his breakfast with in arms reach and devouring it. Getting up and having another stretch. He thought her heard a gasp but he wasn't sure, went over to get his clothes and dress. Picking up his tray to go upstairs to see Hermione scurrying up the last of the stairs. He grinned she might have seen him naked. He found her red faced trying to start breakfast, as he reached past her to put the tray on the counter.

'How did your observations go?' he growled in her ear, as she dropped the plate in to the sink. He went out to get the paper from the post owl then sitting down to read it with a grin on his face. 'Did you talk to me last night? I thought I heard something thru the door.'

Still blushing at what she had spied, 'Um, Yes, when you were racing around the room, 'Stop or you will get hurt' that was when you hit the door. 'See I told you so you sill boy now go lie down.' And again when you decided the blanket had done something wrong to you, I told you to 'Stop or you won't have anything to keep you warm in the morning,' and then I asked you to go back to bed so you wouldn't injure your shoulder worse.'

'Ok so I heard you and comprehended all of it. I stopped mutilating the blanket and I did stop roaming around, so talking helps calm me down.' he said as she wrote all of this down on her notebook.

'Is that why you recovered so fast? You didn't even go back to sleep after eating.' looking at him for his answers.

'Yea I think so, I spent most of the night curled up under the blanket with your scent on it, it smelled fresh?'

'Yea I went down while you were spending time with Teddy and curled up in it. So the scent of a friend helps.'

'When I got up I thought I heard a commotion, like stuff falling, out in the hallway?' with a small grin.

'Um yea I might have been startled at your early recovery, I can say all of these proper meals have done you a world of good.' she blushed again as she wrote 'Scent of friend= calming, good meals= nice physique'. She got up to get something to drink and calm down. Remus pulled her note pad over and read the last line and smiled, pushing it back in time. He had been think about her differently lately not sure on as a very good friend or as possible more. They spent the day sleeping, they came down from their rooms just before dinner. Hermione cook a steak and potatoes for both tonight but hers was a little more done. Remus had rated a 3 good and tender. He cleared the plates while Hermione finished marking the chart.

'Well here is what you have eaten this week and ratings

Sun venison backstrap~1

beef filet~3

mon beef rump ~4

elk brisket~2

tue lamb arm chop~2

Beef tomahawk~3

wed goat shoulder~2

beef ribeye~3

She came around to his side and pointed.

Looks like venison back strap was your favorite, with elk, lamb and goat in third and beef pulling up the rear but the rump roast being your least favorite. And the tomahawk cut as a nice, has leftovers.

'Mione I'm fine with beef it's the easiest to get and.'

'Remus Lupin, the others are easy enough to get all I have to do is order it the week before and the butcher gets it in for me so it is no troubles and if it helps then you will eat it.'

Yes ma'am, as he pulled her in for a hug. Oh she was all warm and soft and. He dropped his hands quickly and got up.

'I need to go get Teddy.' and left the room. She liked that hug it felt good, but would/could Remus love her like that? They spent a few hours before bed with questions.

'Well Remus we now have an idea on where to start. Good night.' kissing him on the temple and left for her room.

The next few weeks Hermione was either in the library at the house or the ministry doing research, asking Remus lots of questions. Remus looked in one day to a pile of parchment, six books open and she was scratching away on another piece of paper.

'Oi Hermione Do you have time to come up for air?' he laughed at her.

'Uh, yeah making up my list, of things I need for next week. And no you can't look. It will be a surprise. What do you need?' she huffed.

'Uh dinner is ready and I'm not letting you miss it, again!' he growled. 'Now Go!' pointing to the kitchen giggling.

'YES, SIR!' giggling at his posturing.

'So how is it going? Do you need any help?' Remus asked as they sat down to dinner.

'Nope I'm good. You will just have to wait to see. I don't want you to think about it before or you will go in with an ideas already formed.' She said with a smirk. 'And don't peek this is to be a surprise ok? Promise?'

'Fine I won't peek.' he said crossing his heart. 'I promise.'

'Hey Ginny are you doing anything Sunday and Monday? I could use some help.' Hermione asked.

'I can help both days if you need me to.'

'That would be great.'