Tale Of The Three Brothers Chapter Summaries

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Chapter 1: Rowling’s World, The History of Magic Many readers may not know, but Harry’s story isn’t all J.K. Rowling wrote; she also created a whole world around it. Rowling successfully intertwined real history into her fictional world, creating a unique background for her story. NATIVE AMERICANS AND ANIMAGI: 14-17th CENTURIES The marauders: James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter made a huge impact on this book and the rest of the series. Because of this, Rowling created a beautiful history pertaining to animagi, dating back to the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. Rowling’s history helps the reader understand how the marauders affected the whole book. Magical means of communication, including apparition, owls, and the floo network, ensured that Native American, Australian, and some European wizards were in contact with each other. Native Americans with magical …show more content…

The Tale of the Three Brothers may seem like a fairytale, but there is a deeper, darker meaning. The Tale of the Three Brothers illustrates three brothers on a journey, and on this expedition, they come across a river which no one has been able to cross. To Death’s irritation, the three brothers are wizards, so they use their magic to build a bridge. Death pretends to congratulate them and grants each brother a wish. The first brother wished for the most powerful wand and the second brother, desiring to antagonize Death, wished for a stone to bring back the dead. In a short amount of time, Death found the two foolish brothers and took them both. The third brother wished for a cloak that would protect him from Death. Death couldn’t find the third brother until he willingly took the cloak off. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it was rumored that if one has all three of the Deathly Hallows; the Elder Wand, Invisibility Cloak, and Resurrection Stone; one will be master over

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