A/N: What better way to introduce somebody than to have them appear naked in the protagonist's bed?

Chapter 25: Bird-girl

"Harry Potter, Sir!" I almost jump out of my skin as Dobby appears after we reach the top of the stairs.

"Christ, Dobby. You frightened the life out of me." I clutch at my chest. Tonks snorts.

"I'm going to change into something more comfortable." She says, heading to her room.

"Right then." I herd Dobby onto the sofa and sit in my chair. "Did it go OK? I was starting to worry – You've been gone ages." This, of course, reduces him to tears as uses far too many words to describe my excellency. "Dobby, we've talked about this." He nods and sniffles.

"The pixie mens shouted and shouted at Dobby and Baxter. First they said gold was fake, then they wanted to kill Baxter and Dobby! Dobby be telling them gold is a gift, this made them strangle each other." His ears flatten against his head for a moment. "After the fighting, pixie men gives Dobby a present for the Great Harry Potter!" He bounces happily.

"A present?" I frown. "What is it?" Dobby shrugs his tiny shoulders and pulls a blue sphere out of thin air.

"Pixie men starts fighting before Dobby could ask." He trots over to me and hold the orb up. It's about the size of my fist.

"No idea what it is?" I ask before touching it, He shakes his head. He then drops the orb into my outstretched hand. Pixie magic in a solid form. 3 hours and 13 seconds old, but it's hiding itself much like my invisibility cloak did at first. Dissapointing.

"Neat." Tonks plucks the orb out of my hand and sits on my lap, hanging her legs over the edge of the arm as she hold the orb close to her eye.

"Well, thanks Dobby. I'd have never been able to get the gold to them without you." He beams at me. It's hard to really thank a house elf because it's so ingrained into them to not accept any material reward or verbal reward, so I have to manoeuvre it into saying how he's helped me. "I'll probably need your help again in the future, if you're up for it?" He nods enthusiastically before vanishing.

"A weird one, isn't he?" Tonks comments as she hands the orb back to me.

"Quite normal for the house elves I've met." The orb feels like glass and gets darker as it reaches the centre, blocking all light whereas the outside is mostly see-through.

"What is it?" She asks.

"Haven't the foggiest." I toss the orb into the air and catch it again. "Magical paperweight for now. It's kind of got a shimmer of pixie magic around it, but most of it seems to be … locked inside?"

"Well." She takes the orb and sets it on the table. "We can figure that out tomorrow." She smirks and slides her arms around my neck. "I think we were interrupted earlier."

I shrink down into human form as I wake up, yawning and stretching whilst my brain starts up. I bump my elbow against something.

"Mmm." A disgruntled groan. I turn to my left to see a girl, a naked girl, lying face down beside me with messy snow white hair spotted with black in places. I turn to my right to see Tonks sleeping soundly. I turn back to the newcomer.

"Err, Can I help you?" I ask after propping myself up on one elbow. The draw back of my ability is that it revolves around touch, which wouldn't be polite in this situation, although invading a person's bed isn't polite.

"I certainly 'ope so." The girls rolls her head to face me. Her eyes are a rich amber colour with wide pupils. She blinks owlishly. "If you can't, no one can." She stretches out in a catlike manner, kicking her legs above her a couple of times, before she sits up, not concerned by her lack of clothes as she stretches her arms above her head. She eventually stills and stares at me. Under some circumstances, I'd be happy to wake up with two beautiful girl sin my bed, but I would like to know who they are … maybe.

"Hedwig?" It suddenly hits me. She grins widely. If Tonks wasn't asleep behind me, I'd think she was currently playing a joke on me.

"Isn't this great?" She hops off the bed and grabs one of my discarded shirts, loosely buttoning it around her.

"Harry?" Tonks starts to wake up. Hedwig rushes around to Tonks' side and delivers a loud slap to her arse. Tonks makes a wonderful noise, but then shrieks when she realises who did it. I follow Hedwig out into the living room as she runs, laughing.

"How did this happen?" I ask, following the whisper as she walks backwards. The real Hedwig seems to have just tripped over and is now swearing colourfully at the coffee table. I pick up the pixie's orb from the floor. She touched this at 3AM and … transformed into a person.

"Found out what it does!" She says happily as she massages her toes.

"Clearly." I inspect the glassy orb closely."It doesn't even know what it did. It's like the instructions weren't there, but it was almost … designed for owls specifically. Pixie magic – Brilliant." I smile as I watch the transformation a few times. "Does it work both ways? Or are you stuck?" I turn my attention to the flesh-formed Hedwig.

"Oh-" She spins back into her normal form and the familiar presence of her mind returns briefly before she changes back. "It's amazing, Harry! I've got fingers, hair and legs!" She jumps up and down on the sofa.

"I don't even know what to say." She falls over the back over the sofa.

"I'm OK!" She pops up from behind the back, hair slightly more tussled than before.

"And you can just … transform into a human now? Just like that?"

"Well you did all stuff with the pixies, idiotically gave away a load of gold, so it wasn't just 'like that', unless you're disregarding all your work." She tries to do a cartwheel, but crumples onto the floor. "I'm OK!" I feel like I should talk to Albus, but I can't go running to him for every little thing.

"Hedwig!" Tonks, now dressed in another of my shirts, starts to chase Hedwig around the room, intent on returning to slap whilst a bright red hand-print is on her butt. This is the strangest and best thing I've ever seen.

"Harry? We were just going to come over." Sirius is wearing his jacket as he opens the old door.

"Yeah, something came up. Thought you might find it interesting." He waves us inside.

"Wotcher." Tonks follows Hedwig inside.

"Well, Happy Birthday!" Sirius hugs me and turns to Hedwig. "Who's your friend?"

"Is Moony about?" I ask.

"Just in the kitchen." We carefully walk past the noisy portrait so to avoid awakening her. "So, what's going on?" Sirius asks as we settle against various surfaces in the kitchen.

"Well … This is Hedwig." I gesture to the owl-girl, now dressed in some of Tonks' clothes. They both insisted that a vest and shorts were required for the warm weather. Arguing with either of them would've been impossible.

"You met someone called Hedwig?" Sirius asks.

"About 4 years ago." I say. "This is the Hedwig."

"That's impossible." Remus turns his attention away from the newspaper.

"And yet, here we are." I shrug, leaning on the counter beside Tonks. "I've run all the general tests, everything comes back normal. All the human-specific ones came back positive, so they recognise her as human."

"May I?" Remus draws his wand. Hedwig nods happily and holds her arms up for some reason.

"Blood pressure, heart rate, iron levels – The whole blood works. She's completely healthy. Organs are all in place and functioning, her metabolism seems to be a touch higher than generally expected in a teenage girl, but that's negligible. Her hair is hair, nails are nails. Her skin's all healthy, albeit pale, and looks fine after … visual inspection." Sirius coughs to cover his laugh. Remus drops his wand after trying the spells himself.

"She's completely human." He seems a bit stunned as Hedwig spins round and turns into an owl again, if only to show off, before changing back.

"Ta da!"

"So she just happened to turn into a person overnight?" Sirius asks sceptically.

"Something like that." I grin. "Throw in an orb that some pixies gave me, it's a recipe for this sort of thing." I gesture to Hedwig who is now trying to balance on one foot.

"An orb? From pixies?" Remus frowns. I toss the orb to him.

"It's exhausted itself now, just a pretty mantelpiece topper." I watch as he attempts a few scanning spells, which do nothing. It is pixie magic after all.

"Without knowing the nature of the orb, there is no way to know exactly what happened, or how." He give it to Sirius for inspection.

"From what I've gathered, it was designed to do exactly what it did – Turn an owl into a human, or rather add the ability to do so. The energy consumption would have been tremendous, but with the pixies it doesn't really matter." Remus scratches his head as Hedwig rocks back and forth on her feet.

"You have friends within Gringotts, correct? Perhaps you could arrange a-"

"Genealogy test?" I interrupt him. "Already done it."

"What did they say?"

"Well, It wasn't the Goblins, I did it myself. Much easier to use a few charms to find out things like that."

"A few … charms? There aren't any known ways to manipulate magic to test such things." Remus' frown becomes more pronounced.

"They're an uncommon set of charms." Mainly because of Gellert's work and a few other users of the Elder Wand. "But they worked, which surprised me."

"Because she's an owl." He nods.

"Hey!"

"Was an owl." He amends.

"That's the real kicker." Tonks grins. "Go on, you'll tell it better." She nudges me. All eyes return to me.

"Because of the way the magic formed Hedwig's body, it used the first human it could use as a sample. So as I touched it, the orb used my DNA as a template, Her body and blood are an incredibly close match to my own."

"So she's your... sister?" Remus ventures. Sirius is just slack-jawed – Not an unusual expression for him.

"Sort o-"

"More like his daughter!" Tonks laughs halfway through my sentence.

"It's not like tha-"

"I'm his daughter!" Hedwig rushes over and hugs me.

"No, it's no-" I try again.

"Daughty daughter!" Hedwig squeezes me.

"Well we knew it'd happen some day." Sirius laughs. "But we didn't think it'd be on your 14th." Hedwig starts to sing and babble.

"...and we'll have loads of little babies like humans do!..." I pinch the bridge of my nose.

"So as you can see, she's excited and not my daughter." That's not how it even works. I prise her arms off of me and she rushes into the living room, the tell-tale sound of jumping, probably the sofa, reaches the kitchen. "She's not my daughter." I say after Tonks goes after Hedwig. "More like my clone or something, They've been teasing me about it since I did the test."

"What exactly did it tell you?" Remus inquires.

"It didn't make much sense on it's own, as the spells aren't exactly mainstream." Unfinished works of lunatics. "But with the orb and some other searching." I say pointedly to Sirius, as Remus doesn't know about all the skills in my repertoire. "I could figure out that her body was created from my own, Lily and James' DNA sort of referenced as a very, very distant relative. There was another set in her too, but that's probably just her own new stuff."

"Probably?" Sirius prompts.

"Well I'm not exactly a genealogist." I shrug. "Could be anythin'."

A/N: Thanks to everyone that voted on the poll, I couldn't decide myself. As Harry's ability is based on touch, he has to be touching Hedwig to have their minds connect when she isn't in her avian form.

Despite the teasing, No - She isn't actually Harry's daughter. Enjoy!