Rowling is beyond needing to manufacture spin-offs, and the collection probably did begin, as she says, as a jeu d'esprit. It is a thin volume, with just four more brief tales added to the reprinted "Three Brothers", and bulked out with Dumbledore's "notes". Now Rowling has given us Dumbledore's collection, adorned with her own drawings and sold in aid of the children's charity that she set up with politician Emma Nicholson. The story concerns the dangerous desire to vanquish death, a preoccupation in the book. These magical objects are the "Deathly Hallows" of the book's title. The greedy brothers who win the Wand and the Stone perish by them the humble brother with the cloak lives a long life protected by it from Death, until in old age he voluntarily relinquishes it. In "The Tale of the Three Brothers", the brothers meet Death and win from him an Elder Wand, a Resurrection Stone and a Cloak of Invisibility. In his will, Professor Dumbledore leaves Hermione Granger his copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of children's stories, and she later reads one out. J K Rowling inserted a kind of fairy tale into Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last Harry Potter tome.
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