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the tale of beedle the bard. is a collection of stories written for young wizards and witches.They have been popular bedtime reading for cienturies, with the result that the Hoping Pot and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar to meany of the students of Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle(non-magical) children. Beedle's stories resemble out fairy tales in many respects; for instance,virtue is usually rewarded,and wickedness punished.However, there is one very obvious difference.In muggle fairy tales, magic tends to lie at the root of the hero's or heroine's troubles- the wicked witch has poisoned the apple,or put the princess into a hunderd-year's sleep,or turned the prince into a hideous beast.In the tales of beedle the bard. on the other hand we meet heroes and heroines who can perform magic themselves and yet find it just as hard to solve their provlems as we do. Beedle's stories have helped generations of wizarding parents to exlain this painful fact of life to their young children: that magic causes as much trouble as it cures. [[Category:]]]