Ferret

A ferret is a weasel-like animal typically kept as a pet.

• Someone wrote to the Daily Prophet's Problem Page to ask if the Ministry would look the other way if he turned his brother's children into blood-sucking ferrets (the answer was 'no') (DP)
• Buckbeak enjoys a plate of dead ferrets (PA14).
• Mad-Eye Moody once turned Draco into one (GF13).
• Mortlake was taken away for questioning about some extremely odd ferrets (CS3).
• During the practical portion of the Transfiguration O.W.L., Hannah Abbott turned her ferret into a flock of flamingos, temporarily halting the test (OP31).
• Brother Benedict, a Franciscan monk, wrote about his account with a giant talking ferret, but his account was attributed to too much turnip wine. It is likely he actually encountered a Jarvey (FB).