All of you have probably read the book as well as other reviews about it, especially the Potter enthusiasts, so it would be worthless to give more details about it. And so, I'd rather give my perceptions about the contents of the book.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, for me, is not something comparable with the Harry Potter series, as it is certainly not made to be so and which the author has clearly disclosed in public. At first, Rowling did not really intend to publish the book for her billions of fans but only as a token for the people who made the fame the Potter series is currently enjoying.
But as our favorite author saw it unfair for the people who placed her at the pinnacle of fame to be deprived of the chance of having the book, and as she intends to extend her hand to needy children through a charity which she herself co-founded, the book was decided to be published worldwide.
Content-wise, the stories, in my opinion, could not truly level with fairy tale stories we, the supposed muggles have met as a kid. But then, it is indeed a good supplement to hungry Potter fans who crave for more details related to the series. Furthermore, it is a genius step of Rowling to include commentaries made by Albus Dumbledore for it created a more vivid picture of the magical world already known to the public.
I already have dropped the idea of looking for moral lessons in Rowling's stories ever since she stressed in an interview that she never intended to teach morality in her writings but to present the story at her will. Nonetheless, I felt the need to seek for moral lessons the stories in the book could be teaching as it is supposed to be a book read by young wizards.
In a wizard's point of view, I believe, each stories have a lesson to tell not only for the wizards but also for us who read them. In "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," it teaches us not to refuse to lend a hand to somebody who is needy if we have the power to do so. In "The Fountain of Fair Fortune," it tells us that sometimes, what we need can be found among ourselves, among our friends and colleagues, not in some wish-granting fountain of luck. In "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," it shows us that man can never keep himself away from the warmth of ones love because next to it is savagery and ill-will. In "Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump," it presented the fact that fooling someone will only bring bad luck twice to the person who is fooling around. "The Tale of the Three Brothers" is also the same as the tale storied by Hermione Granger in the eventh installment which, I guess, teaches us to be more logical in thinking what something can bring us in the future that at present.
Apart from these, I must say there is nothing more.
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