CHAPTER 2
-Five years later-
'My heart, why is it starting to hurt? I have felt like this before.' Hedwig thinks from her cage that she is stuck in. She was caught three years ago and now sits in a cage in a pet store on Diagon Alley. 'Wait can this mean the person to free me has been born?' Hedwig watches as people come and go and buy owls or cats or other kinds of animals. She waits in her cage till the day she can be freed.
-Eleven years later-
Hedwig has watched a lot of owls and cats been picked by children to have while they attend Hogwarts. It is beginning to look like any other day except that the pull on her heart and soul from eleven years ago gets stronger.
'My heart, why is it hurting now?' She thinks. It starts to become a little painful for her since it starts to restrict her breathing a little. The bell to the store rings as the door opens. She feels a pull telling her to turn around. She turns around to see a child with black unruly hair and green eyes behind a pair of glasses with tape keeping them together. The child is in clothes that are clearly too big for the boy. He walks into the store further and starts walking to her cage. She feels the pull gets stronger as he gets closer to her. He stops at her cage and sticks a finger through the bars of the cage and she slowly approaches his finger, when his finger touches her a flash of white light surrounds her and the young man.
'What just happened?' Hedwig thinks after the light vanishes.
Harry's pov
"Harry welcome to Diagon Alley." Hagrid says as they walk through the brick archway from the Leaky Cauldron.
"Wow! Where do we go first Hagrid?" Harry asks.
"To get you money of course. The place to go is Gringotts." Hagrid says. The two make their way to the grand white marble building towering over the alley.
One hour later the two leave the bank and start Harry's school shopping. Another hour later they are walking by the pet store when Harry feels a pull towards the store. He stops and looks at it.
"Harry something wrong?" Hagrid asks.
"Yeah I feel a pull to this store." Harry says. Hagrid turns to look at said store.
"Alright we can visit since you need an owl or cat." Hagrid says. The two enter the store.
'What am I feeling? It's like a few years ago when we went to the zoo for Dudley's birthday but not this strong.' Harry thinks. He sees an owl that is snow white. He walks towards the cage and lifts his hand and sticks a finger between the bars of the cage. The owl gets closer and his finger touches the owl's chest. As soon his finger touches the owl a flash of white light surrounds him and the owl.
-Ministry of magic, marriage office-
A book on a stand opens and two names appear.
Harrison James Potter
Hedwig Marie Welch
Soul bonded, August 26th, 1991
In a drawer of the headmaster's office at Hogwarts a marriage contract between Ginerva Weasley and Harry Potter bursts to flames and a sorting hat and phoenix are amused at what will happen when this is found in ashes.
Hagrid's pov
'A-A soul bond? How is that possible?' Hagrid thinks with wide eyes. He is too shocked to speak about what he saw. Harry pays for the owl and finish his school shopping and Hagrid forgets about the soul bond between Harry and his owl Hedwig which he named.
Harry is taken back to the Dursley's. his trunk is locked under the stairs in the cupboard he used to live in and Harry and Hedwig get locked in the second bedroom that was given to Harry.
"Well Hedwig we only have to wait a week to go to Hogwarts." Harry says. Hedwig hoots in reply. Harry pets Hedwig sticking his fingers through the bars of her cage.
-Two days later-
Harry figured out how to pick the lock on Hedwig's cage. He puts his arm in and she hops on it gratefully to be out of the cage. She climbs up to his shoulder and brushes her head against his. Harry runs his hand over her feathers. He then has a feeling to kiss her on her beak. He turns his head and kisses her beak, what he wasn't expecting was for Hedwig to glow and fall off his shoulder onto his bed. He starts to panic as she has spasms.
"Hedwig!" Harry yells.
"Hoo-ahhhhh!" Hedwig starts to screech but turns into a scream which confuses Harry. He watches as Hedwig's body starts to grow and grow longer. He watches as her white feathers turn to snowy white hair. In the place of an owl is a girl who is the same age as Harry. Hedwig stops shaking and pants trying to catch her breath from her screaming.
"H-Hedwig?" Harry asks. Hedwig opens her eyes and he looks into her honey-golden eyes.
"H-Harry i-it's m-m H-Hedwig." Hedwig says having a hard time speaking since she spent so much time as an owl and her voice is a little hoarse from screaming. Harry grabs the glass of water from his night stand and gives it to Hedwig.
"Thanks." She says as she drinks it.
"How did you change?" Harry asks after a minute of silence.
"Hedwig tells Harry who she is, how she became stuck as an owl and he was the only one to free her. She hugs Harry and cries to finally be free to be human again and not stuck as an owl.