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Site 9: The rabbit is now described as suffering in the garden, as cold, wet,  and alone. The rabbit remembers the wonderful things that he shared with  the boy and recognizes that those events are coming to an end. He laments:  “Of what use is it to be loved and lose one’s beauty and become Real if it  all end[s] like this?” From a tear that falls down the rabbit’s face, a flower  blooms and bears forth the “nursery magic Fairy.” The fairy turns the rabbit  from something that was “Real to the Boy . . . because he loved [the rabbit]”  into something “Real to every one.” This thread of the story continues as the  fairy escorts the rabbit to the company of other rabbits, instructing them to  be kind to him and to teach him what he needs to know to live in Rabbitland,  and as encouraging him to run and play. 

The velveteen rabbit is described as  experiencing himself as not yet ready to do this because he is immersed in  remembering his reality as the stuffed rabbit that could not move like these  living ones. Indeed, it is not of his own volition that he is presented as making new movements: Rather, his leg is portrayed as moving spontaneously to  scratch at a tickle he feels; from this event, he is described as realizing his  new status as a living, self-moving being. He is presented as ecstatic at this  movement: “He was a Real Rabbit at last, at home with the other rabbits.”