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Hares are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus.[1] It was a possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm.[2]
History[]
On 1 September 1993, after the Dementor incident on the Hogwarts Express, the wrapper of the chocolate bar Remus Lupin handed out had a pattern of three conjoined hares as its design.[3]
The Patronus of Luna Lovegood was a hare; she first conjured it late in her fourth year during the lessons taken by Dumbledore's Army, taught by Harry Potter in 1996[4] and employed in the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May 1998.[5]
Nymphadora Tonks also had a hare patronus, specifically in the form of a Jack Rabbit,[6] until her growing love for Remus Lupin in 1996 resulted in it changing to a wolf.[7]
Types of hares[]
Behind the scenes[]
- In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Illustrated Edition, the chapter title art of Chapter Five was the chocolate bar featuring the three conjoined hares. Illustrator Jim Kay handled the package design with symbolisms; the three circular hares is a motif associated with the lunar phases.[8] On the wrapper shows somnus leporinus, a Latin phrase loosely translating to "the sleep of a hare",[9][10] and the hare is said to sleep open-eyed, a sign of watchfulness.[11][3][12]
- The same illustration was reused in Harry Potter: A Magical Year, The Illustrations of Jim Kay, this time without the out-of-universe chapter title placed within the wrapper, but was used to represent the date 11 November.[13]
- In the Danish edition, Babbitty Rabbity from Beedle the Bard's tales was replaced by Hare Hop, and as such her Animagus is a hare instead of a rabbit.
- Luna Lovegood's hare Patronus is possibly a reference to the Moon rabbit, a figure in East Asian mythology.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Illustrated Edition (Appears on packaging)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears as a Patronus)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears as a Patronus)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Danish edition only)
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter (website) (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Appears as a Patronus)
- Harry Potter: The Character Vault (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter: A Magical Year, The Illustrations of Jim Kay (Appears on packaging)
- Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Appears as a Patronus)
- Hogwarts Legacy
Notes and references[]
- ↑
Hare on Wikipedia
- ↑ Pottermore (see this image)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5 (The Dementor) (Illustrated Edition)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 32 (The Elder Wand)
- ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Patronus Charm" at Harry Potter (website)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 8 (Snape Victorious)
- ↑ Three hares on Wikipedia
- ↑
somnus on Wiktionary
- ↑ Latin Definition for: leporinus, leporina, leporinum at Latin Dictionary and Grammar Resources - Latdict
- ↑ Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals (Vol. 2 of 2), by Angelo De Gubernatis—The Project Gutenberg eBook (p.80-81) - "The moon is the watcher of the sky, that is to say, she sleeps with her eyes open; so also does the hare, whence the somnus leporinus became a proverb."
- ↑ Chapter Five Opener | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – creepy scrawlers ltd. - [...] "The Eye in the centre of the wrapper and the latin inscription refers to the connection between the hare and the moon (the moon was the ‘watcher of the sky’ and never slept, and the hare was believed to also rest with eyes open, and be ever watchful). This all underlines the strange healing/protective nature of chocolate when recovering from the effects of a Dementor, and the connection between the giver of the chocolate (Lupin) and the Moon."
- ↑ Harry Potter: A Magical Year, The Illustrations of Jim Kay
