Creeva’s World 2.0

Pic­ture from here

Amazon.com recently released pre-orders for J.K. Rowl­ings lat­est book The Tales of Bee­dle the Bard.   They are two edi­tions available:

The Stan­dard Edition

Which is being sold at a pre-order price of $7.59

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Or alter­na­tively

There is also the deluxe collector’s edition

Which is being sold at a pre-order price of $100.00

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• All five fairy tales from the orig­i­nal The Tales of Bee­dle the Bard
• Outer case dis­guised as a wiz­ard­ing text­book from the Hog­warts library
• Exclu­sive repro­duc­tion of J.K. Rowling’s hand­writ­ten intro­duc­tion
• 10 new illus­tra­tions by J.K. Rowl­ing not included in the Stan­dard Edi­tion or the orig­i­nal hand­crafted edi­tion
• Vel­vet bag embroi­dered with J.K. Rowling’s sig­na­ture
• Metal skull, cor­ners, and clasp
• Replica gem­stones
• Emer­ald ribbon

Plot line from Wikipedia

The Tales of Bee­dle the Bard also is a plot device in the sev­enth novel of the Harry Pot­ter series, Deathly Hal­lows, in which it is bequeathed to Hermione Granger by Albus Dum­b­le­dore. The book is described as a pop­u­lar col­lec­tion of wiz­ard­ing children’s fairy tales, thus while Ron Weasley is famil­iar with the sto­ries, Harry Pot­ter and Hermione Granger had not pre­vi­ously heard them due to their non-magical upbringing.

The edi­tion Hermione received in chap­ter seven in Dumbledore’s will is a copy of the orig­i­nal edi­tion of fic­tional books in the novel. It is described as an ancient-looking small book with its bind­ing “stained and peel­ing in places”. In the novel it is also said the book has a title on its cover, writ­ten in embossed runic symbols.

The book acts as the vehi­cle for intro­duc­ing the Deathly Hal­lows. Above the story The Tale of the Three Broth­ers, Hermione Granger finds a strange sym­bol which later is revealed by Xenophilius Love­g­ood to be the sym­bol of the Hal­lows. The tri­an­gle from the sym­bol rep­re­sents the Invis­i­bil­ity Cloak, the cir­cle inside the tri­an­gle sym­bol­izes the Res­ur­rec­tion Stone, and the ver­ti­cal line rep­re­sents the Elder Wand.

After fin­ish­ing Deathly Hol­lows, Rowl­ing hand wrote a man­u­script for The Tales of Bee­dle the Bard.   This man­u­script was pur­chased by Amazon.com for 3.98 mil­lion.  If you need some­thing to get your Harry Pot­ter fix on now that the series is over, this is your book.

I’ll be main­tain­ing updates on this at beedlebard.net where I orig­i­nally wrote this post.