To demonstrate this point, she firstly held out both hands above the coffee table. Harry and Luna obliged by leaning in. Once they had done so, she flexed her fingers and small claws extended from each finger.
"I can climb just about anything, just like a squirrel," she said. "I've got those claws on my toes as well. There's also this," she said as she clenched her fists making the knuckle spike extend from its sheath under her skin on each hand.
Harry whistled at the sight of them.
"That's amazing! Looks incredibly sharp, too," he said.
"Oh, it is," Doreen grinned. "Can cut through any wood with ease. And lastly, there's … my tail."
Harry and Luna blinked confusedly at each other as Doreen stood up and put her hands behind her, fishing her three-foot long bushy tail out from her pants and turning around for them to see.
"This is why my parents thought that I might be a mutant," she said. "I was born with it. Great for balance, especially when I'm climbing or jumping."
"I imagine it would be," Luna said with a smile as she reached out and began stroking the soft fur.
"So, do I have what it takes? Can I be an Avenger, too?" Doreen asked eagerly, her eyes shining.
"I don't think it's quite that easy," Harry said slowly. "For one, we'd have to evaluate you, test you, to see exactly what you can do. For another, like I said, you're still in school and that'd have to come first."
"Oh. Maybe … maybe I could be like a … a reserve?" Doreen asked, her excitement growing with the idea. "You know, when the danger's too big that you need extra help than just the seven of you – well, six of you, really now that Thor's gone back to Asgard – you can call me in to help out."
Harry's eyes sought out Luna, desperately asking for help in how to curb the girl's excitement.
"I would imagine that you'd need to do an interview," Luna stated, "to show your capabilities. After all, it wouldn't do for you to be asked to help and you get there and you don't have the right skills. What if they need someone to fly one of their planes for example."
"Quinjet," Harry corrected
"You're saying that I need extra training? To get a bigger, better skillset? To be able to do more stuff so that I can help more?" Doreen asked.
"Exactly," Harry replied. "And school will be a big part of that."
"Okay, I guess I can understand that," Doreen said. "How soon can I meet the rest of the Avengers and show them what I can do?"
Harry sighed. "I'll ring Tony later this afternoon and see what I can arrange."
Once again, Doreen squealed with joy and began chittering with Monkey Joe.
Luna, meanwhile, turned to Harry. "The good part about Doreen knowing now that you're a wizard is that you won't have to sleep on the
couch any more.
Harry cocked an eyebrow at her, encouraging her to explain that statement.
"You can simply transfigure it into a bed," Luna said.
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"Well, it is unsurprising that your animagus form would have wings," Luna stated as she circled the half-transformed man before her.
It really was an intriguing look for Harry, being half-man and half-bird – kind of like a hippogryph or griffin really. Except both of those creatures had the front half being the part that was bird, unlike Harry who'd decided to keep his human head and change the rest of him to bird-form. And then there was the size: Harry seemed to have yet to work out how to alter from human size down to the appropriate size for his feathered form.
"If this is your proper size," she supposed, "it might be easier to guess what you're supposed to be. Ostriches and emus are quite large birds, but neither have wings that let them fly, unlike the ones that you seem equipped with. They also have long legs and you don't. No. I don't think that you're one of them. It'd be nice if you were a diricawl or a fwooper, they're both magical and that could be fun. Well, not the fwooper, perhaps – their cries can drive a person insane and that wouldn't be any good at all."
"I think I'm more likely to be some kind of bird of prey," Harry commented, a surprising ability considering that his neck was half bird-like and half-human (obviously, his voice box was in the half-human part).
"Yes, I suppose so; your talons do lend one to that conclusion," Luna sighed in agreement. "That's not as much fun, though."
"It could be," Harry grinned and she knew that he was imagining flying through the air, much like he did with his broom, only more so.
Finally, after circling him for the fourth time, Luna signalled for him to transform back.
"I don't think that I will be of any use to you in working out how to complete your transformation," Luna said sadly.
"That's okay, Luna; thanks for taking a look," Harry said, giving the girl's upper arm a rub.
Luna cocked her head at him. "I think, Harry Potter, that you already know what you have to do."
After dropping his head, Harry nodded.
"I need to talk to Minerva," he stated. "She's a Transfiguration Master, not to mention an Animagus herself."
Luna waited in silence for Harry to finish his inner turmoil.
"I'm going to have to go back to Hogwarts, aren't I?" he half-asked, half-stated.
"England isn't so bad, Harry," Luna stated, completing the thought out-loud for her friend. "And you have been gone a long time; perhaps their interest in you has died off."
"Do you really believe that, Luna?" Harry asked sceptically.
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