INTRODUCTION
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of stories written for young wizards and witches. They have been been popular bedtime reading for centuries, with the result that the Hopping Pot and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar to many students at Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping beauty are to Muggle children.
Beedle's stories resemble our fairy tales in many respects; for instance, virtue is usually rewarded and wickedness punished. However, there is one obvious differnce. In Muggle fairy tales, magic tends to lie at the root of the hero or the heroine's troubles- the wicked witch has poisoned the apple, or put the pricness into a hundred year' sleepor 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 problems as we do. Beedle’s stories have helped generations of wizarding parents to explain this painful fact of life to their young children:
Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
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