[Hotter Potter] Review The tales of Beedle The Bard

This book is a book supporting the Harry Potter series like Fantastic Beasts and where to find them and Quidditch through the ages. The tales of Beedle the Bard was published after the last series of Harry Potter (Deathly Hallows) because this book is mentioned in the seventh novel.

The tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Snow White for the Muggles. According to Rowling's imagination, the wizards are very familiar with the stories in this book because wizarding parents always tell these stories to their children.

This book consists of five short stories with different themes. Something which draws from these stories is that each story contains an interesting moral and even for kids witch. The most fundamental moral lines of the characters in the story is  in the form of wizards and Muggle are able to coexist peacefully, despite the assumption Muggles and Muggle-born wizards are rubbish for some, especially the Pure Blood. And the other fascinating thing is from characterizations between two types of people which are able to explain to the young witch that they are equal as human beings and should help each other in each other complement deficiencies.

The wizard and the hopping pot tells the story of a wizard who often helped neighbors (Muggle) to make a potion to cure their disease. The wizard has a child and before the wizard died, he told his son to continue his actions in helping their Muggle neighbors who needed  magic that their grief and pain are reduced. But after his father died, the young wizard did not want to help and often scolded his neighbors when they asked for help. Then a strange thing happened when the cauldron’s father had complained of symptoms such as his neighbors felt. Not only that, from the bottom of the cauldron emerged one foot that made the cauldron jumped following the young wizards follow wherever he went. This story teaches about tolerance. How do people who have surplus should help the weaker, especially when the weak have to ask for help.

The fountain of fair fortune tells about union among witch and Muggle. They can come together and live together through adventure. Either adventure to achieve victory (waterfall) or adventure to reach happy families, as happened between Amata and The knights.

The Warlock’s hairy heart teaches about love. Humans cannot avoid love and for those who love to experiment in order to distance himself, then is not human anymore but he will be a monster, as is done the Warlock's by separating heart with his body. And the Hearts that had been separated from his body  be more powerful than the Warlock himself. Finally, the Warlock kills woman whom he would marry and then kill himself.

Babbity rabbity and her chuckling stump similar to the story of a foolish king or king naked. In this story, the King held a proclamation for volunteers who are willing to teach magic for him. Finally, appeared the man that confessed as a wizard and pretended to teach for The King some magic tricks in exchange for gold and rubies. Seeing their strange magic practicing  makes Babbity, a witch who turned as King’s washerwoman laughed and made the king shame. The king wanted to do real magic to the whole kingdom the next day to prove himself good at magic. The cheater who were panic persuaded Babbity to perform magic behind the bush when King swinging his magic wand. The next day, the King did manage to make a hat disappeared and a horse hovered, yet king was not able to turn one of his soldiers from the death. The cheater reasoned that malicious witch blocked the King’s magic  while pointing into Babbity’s hiding place. The King and his army pursued Babbity then cut the trees which is alleged as Babbity’s incarnation. After the tree fell, Babbity voice saying that other magicians will take revenge to the kingdom of the King. Babbity also added that a wizard cannot die if cut in half. Seeing this, the king ordered his men to cut off the cheater and asked for the best sculptor to make a statue of Babbity made of pure gold. Then the cheater, who has admitted his lies, thrown into jail.

The tale of the three brothers is the most popular because which closely related to the plot of the story in the Harry Potter seven series. The three brothers managed to fool death and the Death gave gifts in the form of an unbeatable Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone to call people from the dead and an invisibility cloak that covers people of vision. The three brothers asked the gifts in order to avoid The death, but unfortunately they met The Death with a tragic death (except the youngest) due to of The Death’s gift. The eldest died because a lot of people vying for his magic wand, the middle who turned mad and then committed to suicide because of the woman he loved, who had turned from the dead, cannot live with him. While the youngest committing himself to death after years of sight, because he always wore an ivisibility cloak, and before going with death, the youngest inherited his mantle to his son. The Cloak here is what readers of Harry Potter know as Harry’s invisibility cloak which Dumbledore gave to Harry in his first Christmas at Hogwarts.

Reading these stories reminds me of the opinion of  Daniel R. Mitchell
that is simply an entertaining fairy tale for kids but adults gain more. As the story The fountain of fair fortune, who became my favorite story, about Amata who gave her memories of her darling as payment so  and she and  friends get through obstacles. We all can be like Amata, leaving the memory of a lover who has passed away and went to live with other people rather than stuck and mourn our own lover and we don’t  have the power to give him back to us.

I think, personally, the adults should read this book to their minds open to the variety of life.