The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

The Tales of Beedle The Bard were essentially the wizarding equivalents of Aesop's Fables. And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Dumbledore's commentary occasionally treads into this territory.Alliterative Title: The story, 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune'.Subverted with Amata, who finally realizes that she's better off without her boyfriend.It may also be a Take That! at the Draco in Leather Pants crowd, which Rowling has complained about before. 'The Warlock's Hairy Heart' states that many witches were attracted by the warlock's 'haughty mien' and fantasized about conquering it.

Aesop Enforcer: The hopping pot is this for the young wizard who inherits it.

Adaptational Villainy: Likewise, the innocent Muggles who just wanted help for their problems get turned into a torch-and-pitchfork-bearing mob who want to kill the wizard for doing magic, and promptly get eaten by the hopping pot.

Adaptational Heroism: In-universe, anti-Muggle wizards rewrote 'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot' so that the mean, Muggle-hating young wizard becomes a nice wizard being persecuted by his magic-hating Muggle neighbors.The Tales of Beedle the Bard provides examples of the following tropes: Said Tale was adapted as an independent short film in 2014 with J.K. Rowling herself said that The Pardoner's Tale may have provided inspiration for 'The Tale of the Three Brothers'. The tales are interspersed with commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Three brothers literally cheat Death, who in turn offers to grant them wishes with the intention of being a Jackass Genie. 'The Tale of the Three Brothers' - The One With… the Deathly Hallows.He asks for an instructor in magic and only a fraud responds since real wizards were not born yesterday. 'Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump' - A Muggle king decides to eliminate wizards and learn magic himself, unaware that it does not work that way.Then he finds out that everyone thinks he's a loser for not having a girl and sets out to bag himself a trophy wife.

'The Warlock's Hairy Heart' - A young rich warlock fancies himself attuned to the fact that Love Hurts and cuts out his heart to save himself the hassle.'The Fountain of Fair Fortune' - Three witches and a Muggle knight overcome Threshold Guardians to reach a magical fountain.After his death, his decidedly less nice son decides to help no one and the pot treats him to some karma. 'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot' - A nice old wizard helps his Muggle neighbors with his magic pot.Rowling gave Beedle The Bard the Defictionalization treatment. A collection of Fairy Tales that exist in the world of Harry Potter and which describe the eponymous plot devices of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling