What if Hedwig Was Secretly an ANIMAGUS?

Harry Potter spends his first Christmas at Hogwarts counting the things he owns that nobody can take from him, and the list is short: an Invisibility Cloak he received that morning, a handful of friends he has known for three months, and a snowy owl that Hagrid bought for him from a perch at Eeylops. Hedwig has always kept odd hours, vanishing from the Owlery well past midnight and returning before dawn with no post attached to her leg and fine grey ash dusting her feathers. Harry tells himself