Tales of Beedle the Bard Read online

  22 [ Inferi are corpses reanimated by Dark Magic. JKR]

  23 Many critics believe that Beedle was inspired by the Philosopher’s Stone, which makes the immortality-inducing Elixir of Life, when creating this stone that can raise the dead.

  24 An old name for “elder”.

  25 Such as myself.

  26 Also an old name for “elder”.

  27 No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

  Table of Contents

  Introduction

  The Wizard and the Hopping Pot

  Albus Dumbledore on "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot"

  The Fountain of Fair Fortune

  Albus Dumbledore on “The Fountain of Fair Fortune”

  The Warlock’s Hairy Heart

  Albus Dumbledore on “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart”

  Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump

  Albus Dumbledore on “Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump”

  The Tale of the Three Brothers

  Albus Dumbledore on “The Tale of the Three Brothers”

  NOTES