You Have... The Werewolf (Harry Potter Fanfic)

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Hermione couldn't help but stare at the woman, who looked strangely like Bellatrix Lestrange only with brown hair instead of black and she had a kinder appearance to her. The woman walked in as she raised her hand out to shake Hermione's. 

"Hi, I'm Andromeda, Tonks's mother. I couldn't help but overhear your conversation about figuring out what to do with your baby... from the living room." Andromeda introduced herself, grinning from ear to ear. Hermione took her hand and lightly shook Andromeda's hand while Hermione nodded. 

"Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what to do." Hermione explained. Andromeda nodded her head while she led Hermione to a chair in the room. 

"I know exactly what you're going through, Hermione. A friend of mine and I actually. I had been dating Ted for a while and felt we were ready to have intercourse. Well one night stand later, I find out I'm pregnant with Tonks. Ted and I discussed what to do and whether or not we were going to keep Tonks. I was young and still didn't know what I wanted in life." Andromeda stated to her. 

"But you kept Tonks." Hermione pointed out. 

"Yes, because I felt with the support of Ted and his family, we were going to make it through." she admitted. 

"What about your friend?" Hermione asked. 

"She aborted her child. Since she didn't have her family and let alone her boyfriend's support or the income to help the baby through or even the emotionally and mental maturity to raise the baby, she felt if she did keep the baby, she would ruin her life or the social services people would take her baby away and it would grow up in an orphanage and resent her." Andromeda claimed, "Even though we both made different choices, we still had one thing in common." 

"And what's that?" Hermione asked. 

"We both knew what we had to do in that moment of time and knew what would be best for both our babies and most of all ourselves." Andromeda claimed as she lightly patted on the back of Hermione's hand, "And I know, you'll make the right choice regardless of what it is." 

Hermione shook her head, finally feeling a bit better of her decision she had to make. 

"I think I'll keep the baby." Hermione found herself saying. Fenrir and Scabior started cheering and hugging each other while Tonks patted her on the back and Remus nodded his head. 

"Wait a minute?" Scabior suddenly blurted out, "did you know beforehand of what you wanted to do with the baby or not?" 

Hermione opened her mouth to speak when Andromeda turned around and tiled her head. 

"Sometimes young girls in this situation need gentle words of wisdoms from other women, who have been in this situation and hear what they have decided... and not a bunch of yelling men, just shouting a bunch of stuff out there to support their opinion, making an already stressful situation even more stressful." Andromeda shot at the three of them. The three of them started to shuffle around, a bit embarrassed about it all. Andromeda pushed herself from her seat as she help Hermione from hers and took hold of her hand. 

"Now why don't we get you something to eat? I had a few werewolf friends, who were pregnant, and I've seen how hungry they can get during their pregnancy." Andromeda stated to Hermione while leading her down to the kitchen.