Hazel (Watership Down)
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Hazel is a fictional rabbit, the central character in Richard Adams's fantasy novel Watership Down. He is the brother of Fiver, and the two begin the book living in the warren at Sandleford. While they are at Sandleford, when Fiver predicts of disaster at their warren, Hazel believes him and helps Fiver organize some of the Sandleford rabbits to leave and find a new warren. He acts as the leader among his group of rabbits, though he is reluctant at times.[citation needed]
The epilogue of the novel tells how Hazel wakes one morning in his burrow to find another rabbit beside him, wishing to speak with him. The other rabbit invites Hazel to "join my Owsla". The two go outside, where Hazel leaves his body "lying on the edge of the ditch" and follows the other rabbit away. The strange rabbit is never named. In the burrow, Hazel does not recognize it at first, when it asks whether he does, but then answers, "Yes, my lord. Yes, I know you", after noticing that "the stranger's ears were shining with a faint silver light". In the film, the strange rabbit is the Black Rabbit of Inlé.
Hazel also appears in Adams's later book, Tales from Watership Down. In this book he and (Hyzenthlay) act as chief rabbits and he takes charge of the warren more so than in the previous book.
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