"It can only be opened from the outside. I'll show you." Teddy walked towards the door, once again holding his hands up to try to calm her.

She took several steps backward as he approached and then watched as he tried the door. He pressed the button that was supposed to summon his Uncles. "Harry should be here any minute to open it," Teddy promised. "I'm not here to hurt you."

Her shoulders relaxed a little. "Harry?"

"Yeah," Teddy said, glad he finally had something that hadn't riled her up. "Harry Potter- he's my godfather."

"Godfather?" Hermione surveyed him with a puzzled look. "Who are you?"

Teddy realized he had just stepped in it again. "Erm... Teddy."

She folded her arms. "Teddy Lupin is four years old. You," she looked him up and down, "definitely aren't."

He couldn't help a little smile under her perusal. Then he shifted his hair. Slowly it brightened from the now-normal brown to the neon blue he had preferred when he was younger.

Her eyebrows rose up before snapping down, her mouth pulling into a frown.

Reluctantly, Teddy let his nose morph into that of a duck, knowing it was one of the partial-transformations his mother had favored. Usually, he didn't do the ones she had liked. It just made his family sad.

Hermione's eyes grew big. "But... that's not possible."

He let the transformation drop and then wandered back to the bed. "You were out of it for a really long time before they figured out what you needed to recover," he said vaguely.

"How long? How old are you, Teddy?"

He nervously rubbed the back of his neck. He didn't think Harry wanted him to break this news. How could he break that kind of news anyways? He glanced around the room, trying to come up with a way to dodge the question.

"Well, you've got to be at least twenty," she mused.

Indignation brought his eyes back to hers. "I'm almost twenty-five," he protested.

She started to smile before her face blanked. "Twenty years?" she whispered. She sank down into the chair and hugged her arms tight against her.

Teddy waited for her to say something else but she just stared at the floor for several minutes. Finally, he sat down on the bed.

She looked up. "Are my parents alive? What happened to Harry and Ron?"

Teddy gave a helpless shrug. "I don't know about your parents. Harry and Ron are Aurors. They trained me. Erm... they both got married and have kids?" he finished, not sure what she wanted to know.

"Married? They both have kids?"

Teddy nodded, not sure why she looked so devastated. It took him several seconds but then it clicked. She had dated Ron, hadn't she? "Ron didn't get married right away," he said, hoping it would comfort her a little.

She gave him a puzzled look but then her brow cleared. "Oh, Ron and I were dating other people before I..." she trailed off. "Before this," she finished. She lifted her legs up onto the chair and pulled them against her chest. "What about the Moonlight Killer? Did they catch them?"

Teddy shook his head. "No. Actually, there was another victim. She is why we figured out how to... to fix you."

Hermione cocked her head, waiting for him to continue. When he didn't, she asked, "And how was that?"

"Maybe you should ask Harry," Teddy hedged. Harry was going to chew his hide for what he had already exposed.

Her eyes narrowed again. "Where is he, anyway? Why are we locked in a hospital room? And why are you here?"

Teddy gulped. "Well... it was for everybody's protection since it was a full moon."

She just stared.

"I was there in case you needed help and since a human might have aggravated you." It wasn't Teddy's first instinct to reveal that he was a werewolf. He hadn't actually thought about what he would say to Hermione once she had woke up, which seemed rather stupid in hindsight. Still, now that the possibility was there, he actually really liked the idea of finally having someone else he could talk to about the whole 'being a werewolf' thing again.

"You're not human?" Hermione's face went through several expressions as she puzzled it out. She blinked and then gave him an assessing look. "Werewolf. You are a werewolf and you think I'm one too?"

"I know you are one," Teddy answered.

She frowned. "How?"

"Last night was the full moon and I saw you change," he said. "You didn't have a potion so you won't remember it."

She blinked rapidly before her eyes got an unfocused look. There was a long pause before she whispered, "Werewolf?"