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. 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. 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. 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. The rabbit was a possible corporeal form of the Patronus Charm, including the Wild Rabbit.
If Conjuration was not performed correctly, mistakes such as Frog-Rabbit hybrids could occur, explainable by the Principle of Artificianimate Quasi-Dominance. It was taught to third year students in Transfiguration class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Lapifors Spell could be used to transform small objects and creatures into rabbits.
Rabbits, if needed to be dispatched by magic, are particularly vulnerable to Vermillious, as well as the Fire-making spell. The male is called a buck and the female is a doe a young rabbit is a kitten or kit. There are many other species of rabbit, and these, along with pikas and hares, make up the order Lagomorpha. There are eight different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), cottontail rabbits (genus Sylvilagus 13 species), and the Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi, an endangered species on Amami Ćshima, Japan).