That was true. It was mainly asked out of politeness, but it was because Teddy cared, too. He did honestly want to know how Victoire (or other people) were. Though, at the same time, he tended to answer always with a fine as well, even if he wasn't. It was a conspiracy really, a conspiracy of telling people you're fine when you aren't. Someone really ought to write a melodramatic book about that, it'd be a hit at book clubs.
"18. Younger than me. It's, ah, kind of weird?" As much as Teddy was thrilled to have his mum alive and well, it was just a tad strange being older than her. He'd never really known his mother in real life, but he'd always had her at a static age in his mind-- at the age she was in 1998, when he was born and when she died. Sometimes he'd imagined her older, a 'what would she be like if she were here now?' but never younger than him. She almost felt like a younger sister slash his mum at this point. Teddy was a weird guy, used to lots of ridiculous things, but a mother who was just bitty... yeah, that was a bit tough to explain his feelings on. "At least she isn't like, five, or something. That would be pretty crazy."