Before Y/N ever joined the Order of the Phoenix, their reputation whispered quietly through the darker corners of the wizarding world: a rogue Animagus with the form of a fox—quick, cunning, and impossible to catch. They had never registered the transformation with the Ministry, and that secrecy had kept them alive more than once. Foxes slipped through cracks, vanished into shadows, and survived where others couldn’t. Y/N had done the same their entire adult life.