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"Is this all real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
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- Ronald Weasley: "Oh come on! All the old kids' stories are supposed to be Beedle's aren't they? The Fountain of Fair Fortune... The Wizard and the Hopping Pot... Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump..."
- Hermione Granger: "Excuse me? What was the last one?"
- Ronald Weasley: "Come off it! You must've heard of Babbitty Rabbitty —"
- Hermione Granger: "Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles! We didn't hear stories like that when we were little, we heard Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Cinderella —"
- Ronald Weasley: "What's that, an illness?"
- — Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger on children's fairy tales[src]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a popular Muggle fairy tale. In the tale, a wicked witch gives a poisoned apple to the unsuspecting protagonist.[1]
History[]
Muggle author J. K. Rowling noted the difference between this fairy tale and wizarding childrens' stories: that instead of being in the origin of the heroine's troubles, in wizarding children's tales magic was seen as a tool that could be used properly not to cause as many problems as it fixed.[1]
Despite it is just viewed as a childrens' story by Muggles, this tale seems to be an actual account of the incident caused by hag Malodora Grymm in the Middle Ages, who plotted to kill the most beautiful girl in the kingdom by feeding her a poisoned apple.[2]
Hermione Granger mentioned it to Ron Weasley in 1997, as an example of something that she and Harry heard as children, instead of the classic wizarding tales by Beedle the Bard.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
- Miranda Richardson, who plays Rita Skeeter, portrays the Evil Queen in a 2001 adaptation of Snow White, titled Snow White: The Fairest of Them All. In this same film, Warwick Davis, who plays Filius Flitwick and Griphook, portrays one of the dwarfs.
- Eleven years later, Toby Jones (Dobby) played one of the dwarves in the 2012 film Snow White and the Huntsman.
- In the Brothers Grimm version of this fairy tale, the witch not only poisons an apple, but also a comb, which she also gives to the protagonist.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Indirectly mentioned only) (Mentioned on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First mentioned)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard - Introduction
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - Leticia Somnolens
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 7 (The Will of Albus Dumbledore)