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"Is this all real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
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- "The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of stories written for young wizards and witches. They have been popular bedtime reading for centuries, with the result that the Hopping Pot and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar to many of the students at Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle (non-magical) children."
- — J. K. Rowling[src]
Sleeping Beauty was a popular Muggle fairy tale. In this tale, the heroine, a princess, was cursed into a "prolonged nap" by a wicked fairy godmother.[1]
Muggle author J. K. Rowling noted the difference between this fairy tale and wizarding children's stories: fictional witches were much more active in seeking their fortunes than the Muggle fairy-tale heroines. Asha, Altheda, Amata and Babbitty Rabbity were all witches who take their fate into their own hands, rather than than taking a hundred year-long nap, as the protagonist of Sleeping Beauty did.[1]
Inspiration[]
Despite it is just viewed as a children's story by Muggles, this tale seemed to be an actual account of the incident caused by the hag Leticia Somnolens in the Middle Ages, where a Wizard Prince used the Wiggenweld Potion to awaken a Princess who had been given the Draught of Living Death by the hag, by putting some of the potion on his lips and then kissing the princess.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
- Imelda Staunton, who plays Dolores Umbridge, portrayed one of the fairies in the 2014 reimagined film adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent.
- Miranda Richardson, who plays Rita Skeeter, was initially cast as Queen Ulla in Maleficent, but she was scrapped from the film.
- Five years later, Warwick Davis, who plays Filius Flitwick and Griphook, played Lickspittle in the sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Imelda Staunton reprised her role as a fairy in said film. This is the first time Staunton and Davis had been in the same film since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Indirectly mentioned only)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard (First mentioned)