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"A wild rabbit. Don't be fooled by his gentle appearance."
Folio Bruti[src]

A rabbit (also colloquially known as a bunny) is a small mammal in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world.[3]

Rabbits, if needed to be dispatched by magic, were particularly vulnerable to Vermillious, as well as the Fire-Making Spell.[4]

Rabbits in the wizarding world[]

Overview[]

WildRabbit-patronus

A wild rabbit Patronus

The Lapifors Spell could be used to transform small objects and creatures into rabbits.[1][5][6] It was taught to third year students in Transfiguration class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[1]

Frog-rabbit mutation

A frog-rabbit hybrid

If conjuration was not performed correctly, mistakes such as Frog-Rabbit hybrids could occur, explainable by the Principle of Artificianimate Quasi-Dominance.[7]

The rabbit was a possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm, including the Wild Rabbit.[8] Helen Thistlewood had her Patronus assume rabbit form.[9]

The fictitious Babbitty Rabbity in Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump from The Tales of Beedle the Bard was a witch and Animagus who could transform into a Rabbit at will.[10]

History[]

The Fat Friar was executed by senior churchmen, in part because they were suspicious of his habit of pulling rabbits out of the communion cup, sometime during the Middle Ages.[11]

Shortly after the disappearance of French sorceress Lisette de Lapin in 1422, a large white rabbit was seen crossing the English Channel in a cauldron with a sail fitted to it, and a similar rabbit later became a trusted advisor at the court of King Henry VI. Although it was never proven, it was likely that Lisette had been an Animagus and slipped through the bars of her prison cell window the night before her execution.[10]

In a 1913 Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson concerning Boggarts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, an unidentified student used the Boggart-Banishing Spell to turn a vampire Boggart into a buck-toothed rabbit.[12]

In the 1930s, a young Tom Riddle, killed the pet rabbit of another boy, Billy Stubbs, after Stubbs had insulted him, and hung it from the rafters of the building of Wool's Orphanage where they lived.[13]

James Potter sometimes referred to Remus Lupin's condition of being a werewolf as his "furry little problem." Because of this, many came to believe that Lupin was the owner of a rather badly behaved rabbit.[14]

When Harry Potter first witnessed the Sorting Hat during the Sorting ceremony on 1 September 1991 when he first came to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry thought that his and the other new students' task might be to pull a rabbit out of it, thinking of the Muggle magic trick.[15]

The Keeper of Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts Rubeus Hagrid sometimes wore gloves made of rabbit fur.[16]

In the 1991–1992 school year, Harry Potter's Transfiguration class turned a lit candle into a Purple Rabbit, which escaped from class and around in the Hogwarts Castle. Harry was entrusted by Minerva McGonagall to capture it. He was awarded 25 House points for this.[17]

In 1992, after being bitten while trying to help Hagrid care for the Norwegian Ridgeback dragon Norbert, Ronald Weasley proclaimed "I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit."[18]

In 1993, Harry Potter's Transfiguration class had to transform rabbits into Rabbit Slippers which was given to Minerva McGonagall. Harry and Ron Weasley had problems with this spell.[19]

TransformingRabbit

The Transforming Rabbit

In August 1993, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger came across a Transforming rabbit, a peculiar creature capable of turning itself into a top hat and back, in the Magical Menagerie in Diagon Alley.[20]

Main article: Binky

Lavender Brown owned a male rabbit called Binky as a pet. Sometime in late 1993, he was killed by a fox, which devastated her.[2]

The exterior of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley depicted a rabbit underneath a top hat lifted and lowered repeatedly on the head of one of the proprietors.[21] In 1996 Fred and George Weasley ran a product called Repeating Rabbit in their shop Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley.[22]

Known rabbits[]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - PC version
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 8 (Flight of the Fat Lady)
  3. WP favicon Rabbit on Wikipedia
  4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) - GBC version
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
  6. Harry Potter Trading Card Game
  7. 7.0 7.1 Wonderbook: Book of Spells
  8. 8.0 8.1 Pottermore - Patronus quiz
  9. Hogwarts Legacy
  10. 10.0 10.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard, "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump"
  11. Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Hogwarts Ghosts" at Wizarding World
  12. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay, Scene 69
  13. 13.0 13.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 13 (The Secret Riddle)
  14. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 16 (A Very Frosty Christmas)
  15. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 7 (The Sorting Hat)
  16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 11 (Quidditch)
  17. 17.0 17.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
  18. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 14 (Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback)
  19. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 16 (The Chamber of Secrets)
  20. 20.0 20.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 4 (The Leaky Cauldron)
  21. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 6 (Draco's Detour)
  22. Harry Potter Film Wizardry, page 136 booklet
  23. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Side Quest "Conjure a Patronus!"
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