Harry Potter Characters x Reader Oneshots and Imagines (Completed/Closed)

Fox - Harry Potter x Reader

House:  You Choose

Blood Status:  You Choose

A/N: This story is written with no gender specifications.  The reader can be any gender :).

y/f/n - your father's name

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"Y/n. Remember what we talked about?" your father asks you, cautiously leaning in to whisper in your ear.  "Even though you're officially and legally approved, you can't go about Hogwarts telling anybody, okay?  Nobody can know yet."

You nod up to him, understanding what he's whispering about.  Just last week you were approved as the newest animagus.  You were especially proud of your work because itt took you a long time to be able to fully transform.  In the early stages of your attempt to become an animagus, you usually only grew patches of fur and maybe a stub of a tail.  Now, you could turn yourself into a fox.  In the last few weeks after getting your licence, you had been practising even harder o improve your performance in fox form.  Running jumping, crawling, everything you had almost mastered in less than a week.  You could even sort of dance.

"I promise, dad.  I won't tell anybody!" you say, giving your dad a hug.  

"Oh, look, y/f/n,"  your mom says.  "Our y/n.  Fifth year of Hogwarts!  I'm so proud!" 

"Mooom!" you groan.  "Stoooop!"

"Awh, hon.  Your mother is just so proud of you!" your dad says.  You roll your eyes, but hug your parents and then hop on the train, waving to them as you disappear into the train.  You walk down the hall inside the train cars, looking for an empty compartment to sit in.

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You open your eyes as the train shakes you awake.  You look up and blink your eyes slowly, staring out the window.  You see Hogwarts coming closer and closer, its windows glowing brightly along with the stars up above, speckling the dark blue night sky with beautiful silver lights.  You rais your arms up above your head and stretch.  You're back to your second home.

You file out of the compartments, surrounded by your classmates and the other students.  Stepping out onto the platform, you hear the familiar sound of Hagrid.

"First years!  First years this way!" he shouts as nervous first-time students congregate around him shyly.  Turning around, you bump into one of them.  He looks down nervously at his feet.  You smile.  

"I-I'm sorry..." he stutters.

"It's alright," you reply.  "You're a first year, correct?"

He nods his head.  You can tell how nervous he is.

"You'll be just fine.  Hogwarts is an amazing place.  Just wait until you see it for the first time up close," you say reassuringly.  He grins.  "Well, you'd better go to Hagrid over there.  He's the gamekeeper...  Don't be scared of him.  He's a marshmallow, really."

You pat the first year on the shoulder and walk off in the direction of the carriages as he heads toward his classmates.  You file into a dark carriage with a group of third years and sit in the corner.  Another year begins.

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The Great Hall lights up with chatter as Dumbledore finishes his annual speech after the sorting.  The first year that you talked to was sorted into your house, which was a nice surprise.  After serving yourself and talking to your friends, you casually get up hoping not to be noticed by anyone and sneak out into the corridors.  You climb up to the moving stairs, watching the people and animals in the paintings move from picture to picture.  You hear the meow of Mrs Norris and dart up the stairs and continue going up until you reach the astronomy tower for good measure.   You walk out towards the railing and look down to stare at the dimly glowing lanterns, dangling from poles in the boats taken by the first years only about an hour and a half ago.  It's dimply lit up in the astronomy tower and there's not a soul in sight, a perfect place to turn into your fox form.  It wouldn't hurt.  After all, everybody's enjoying the back to school feast in the great hall.    You turn back in towards the wall of the tower and jump forward.  You feel yourself shrinking and your body reorganizing itself into a quadruped form.  You feel the tickle of hair growing on your face and the elongating of your ears.  You land gracefully and sweep your bushy tail side to side.  You raise your front legs up, balancing carefully on your hind legs and spin in a circle.   You begin to hop around, chasing a leaf that had ended up in the tower somehow.

"Who's there?" a voice says suddenly.  You stop in your tracks.  Nobody can see you like this.  You quickly jump forward again and change into your human form again.  From the shadows emerges a boy with messy dark hair and rounded glasses.  Harry Potter.  "Oh.  Hey, y/n.  Where did you come from?  I could have sworn I didn't see a person up here."

"Well, Harry... Umm," you start to say, trying to find a reason for you to be here.  "I, uh, needed some air... so I came up here.  It's always nice and calm up here, y'know!"

"What was making all that noise.  Was it you?" he asks, gesturing in the direction of where you last were in your fox form.

"What noise?  I didn't hear anything," you blush.  "And what are you doing away from the feast?  You're supposed to be with Hermione and Ron!"

"I... got bored.  And I wanted to check on you, too.  I saw you leave the hall.  I was merely curious.  And there's no way you didn't hear that noise.  I could hear it a floor down!" he remarks.  " could have sworn it was some sort of animal.  It's was large and furry with a huge tail and ears..."

Harry looks at you.  He can sense your uneasiness.  He sighs and walks over to you.

"What is it y/n?" he says sternly.

"I..." you say.

"C'mon, y/n," he says in anticipation.

"You can't tell anyone.  Not even Ron or Hermione.  Not another soul.  Not 'till I'm ready," you say, avoiding his gaze.  You sigh.  "I'm an animagus.  That was me.  I can turn into a fox.  I got approved by the ministry the other day. I like to turn into my fox form sometimes and jump around.  It's sort of freeing, being an animal.  It's fun to experience the world from two feet off the ground.  Promise you won't' tell anyone, Harry?  Please?"

He looks at you and nods.

"It's awesome that you're an animagus y/n.  Yes, too.  I'll keep your secret."

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A/Nl This chapter was 1,072 words long!  Thanks for 2k reads!  It means so much to me and I can't believe that so many people have read my imagines!  Thanks for the comment and the votes!  Requests are open and encouraged!  I am happy to write for you guys!  Thanks again!  

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