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《The Tales of Beedle the Bard（英文版/出书版）》作者：[英]J·K·罗琳

《诗翁彼豆故事集》故事情节与小说《哈利·波特》系列紧密相关又独立成篇。它是《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》中霍格沃茨魔法学校校长阿不思·邓布利多留给赫敏·格兰杰的一本书，这本故事集由《巫师和跳跳锅》、《好运泉》、《男巫的毛心脏》、《兔子巴比蒂和她的呱呱树桩》和《三兄弟的传说》等5个魔法世界的童话故事组成，其中包含有帮助哈利和他的朋友们打败伏地魔的重要线索。

在我们能够得到的这本书中，在每一篇故事后，还有所谓邓布利多校长对该故事的评论，可以更好的帮助我们理解故事。这些故事完全贴合魔法世界，又具备寓言的特点，真正可说是魔法世界的《伊索寓言》之类的寓言故事。

Titles available in the Harry Potter series

(in reading order):

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Titles available in the Harry Potter series

(in Latin):

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

(in WelshAncient Greek and Irish):

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Other titles available:

Quidditch Through the Ages

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

BLOOMSBURY

HIGH LEVEL GROUP

healtheducationwelfare

Translated from the original

runes by Hermione Granger

BY

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First published in Great Britain in 2008 by the Children’s High Level Group

45 Great Peter StreetLondonSW1P 3LT

in association with Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

36 Soho SquareLondonW1D 3QY

Text and illustrations copyright ? J. K. Rowling 2007/2008

The Children’s High Level Group and the Children’s High

Level Group logo and associated logos are trademarks of

the Children’s High Level Group

The Children’s High Level Group (CHLG) is a charity established

under English law. Registered charity number 1112575

J. K. Rowling has asserted her moral rights

All rights reserved

No part of this publication may be reproduced or

transmitted by any meanselectronicmechanicalphotocopying

or otherwisewithout the prior permission of the publisher

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 0 7475 9987 6

The paper on which this book is printed has ? 1996 Forest

Stewardship Council A.C. (FSC) accreditation. The FSC promotes

environmentally appropriatesocially beneficial and economically

viable management of the world’s forests.

Typeset by RefineCatch LimitedBungaySuffolk

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Introduction

xi

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of

stories written for young wizards and witches.

They have been popular bedtime reading for

centurieswith the result that the Hopping Pot

and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar

to many of the students at Hogwarts as

Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle

(non-magical) children.

Beedle’s stories resemble our fairy tales in

many respects; for instancevirtue is usually

rewarded and wickedness punished. However

there is one very obvious difference. In Muggle

fairy talesmagic tends to lie at the root of the

hero or heroine’s troubles – the wicked witch has

poisoned the appleor put the princess into a

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hundred years’ sleepor turned the prince into a

hideous beast. In The Tales of Beedle the Bard

on

the other handwe meet heroes and heroines

who can perform magic themselvesand 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: that magic causes

as much trouble as it cures.

Another notable difference between these

fables and their Muggle counterparts is that

Beedle’s witches are much more active in seeking

their fortunes than our fairy-tale heroines. Asha

AlthedaAmata and Babbitty Rabbitty are all

witches who take their fate into their own hands

rather than taking a prolonged nap or waiting

for someone to return a lost shoe. The exception

to this rule – the unnamed maiden of “The

Introduction

xiii

Warlock’s Hairy Heart” – acts more like our idea

of a storybook princessbut there is no “happily

ever after” at the end of her tale.

Beedle the Bard lived in the fifteenth century

and much of his life remains shrouded in mystery.

We know that he was born in Yorkshireand the

only surviving woodcut shows that he had an

exceptionally luxuriant beard. If his stories accu-

rately reflect his opinionshe rather liked

Muggleswhom he regarded as ignorant rather

than malevolent; he mistrusted Dark Magicand

he believed that the worst excesses of wizardkind

sprang from the all-too-human traits of cruelty

apathy or arrogant misapplication of their own

talents. The heroes and heroines who triumph in

his stories are not those with the most powerful

magicbut rather those who demonstrate the

most kindnesscommon sense and ingenuity.

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One modern-day wizard who held very similar

views wasof courseProfessor Albus Percival

Wulfric Brian DumbledoreOrder of Merlin

(First Class)Headmaster of Hogwarts School of

Witchcraft and WizardrySupreme Mugwump of

the International Confederation of Wizardsand

Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. This similarity

of outlook notwithstandingit was a surprise to

discover a set of notes on The Tales of Beedle the

Bard among the many papers that Dumbledore

left in his will to the Hogwarts Archives.

Whether this commentary was written for his own

satisfactionor for future publicationwe shall never

know; howeverwe have been graciously granted

permission by Professor Minerva McGonagallnow

Headmistress of Hogwartsto print Professor

Dumbledore’s notes herealongside a brand new

translation of the tales by Hermione Granger. We

Introduction

xv

hope that Professor Dumbledore’s insightswhich

include observations on wizarding historyper-

sonal reminiscences and enlightening information

on key elements of each storywill help a new

generation of both wizarding and Muggle readers

appreciate The Tales of Beedle the Bard. It is the

belief of all who knew him personally that

Professor Dumbledore would have been delighted

to lend his support to this projectgiven that all

royalties are to be donated to the Children’s High

Level Groupwhich works to benefit children in

desperate need of a voice.

It seems only right to make one smalladdi-

tional comment on Professor Dumbledore’s notes.

As far as we can tellthe notes were completed

around eighteen months before the tragic events

that took place at the top of Hogwarts’ Astronomy

Tower. Those familiar with the history of the most

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recent wizarding war (everyone who has read all

seven volumes on the life of Harry Potterfor

instance) will be aware that Professor Dumbledore

reveals a little less than he knows – or suspects –

about the final story in this book. The reason for

any omission liesperhapsin what Dumbledore

said about truthmany years agoto his favourite

and most famous pupil:

“It is a beautiful and terrible thingand should

therefore be treated with great caution.”

Whether we agree with him or notwe can

perhaps excuse Professor Dumbledore for wishing

to protect future readers from the temptations to

which he himself had fallen preyand for which he

paid so terrible a price.

J K Rowling

2008

A Note on the Footnotes

xvii

Professor Dumbledore appears to have been

writing for a wizarding audienceso I have occa-

sionally inserted an explanation of a term or fact

that might need clarification for Muggle readers.

JKR

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There was once a kindly old wizard who used his

magic generously and wisely for the benefit of his

neighbours. Rather than reveal the true source of

his powerhe pretended that his potionscharms

and antidotes sprang ready-made from the little

cauldron he called his lucky cooking pot. From

miles around people came to him with their

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troublesand the wizard was pleased to give his

pot a stir and put things right.

This well-beloved wizard lived to a goodly

agethen diedleaving all his chattels to his only

son. This son was of a very different disposition

to his gentle father. Those who could not work

magic wereto the son’s mindworthlessand he

had often quarrelled with his father’s habit of

dispensing magical aid to their neighbours.

Upon the father’s deaththe son found hidden

inside the old cooking pot a small package

bearing his name. He opened ithoping for gold

but found instead a softthick slippermuch too

small to wearand with no pair. A fragment of

parchment within the slipper bore the words “In

the fond hopemy sonthat you will never need

it.”

The son cursed his father’s age-softened mind

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5

then threw the slipper back into the cauldron

resolving to use it henceforth as a rubbish pail.

That very night a peasant woman knocked on

the front door.

“My granddaughter is afflicted by a crop of

wartssir” she told him. “Your father used to mix

a special poultice in that old cooking pot –”

“Begone!” cried the son. “What care I for your

brat’s warts?”

And he slammed the door in the old woman’s

face.

At once there came a loud clanging and

banging from his kitchen. The wizard lit his

wand and opened the doorand thereto his

amazementhe saw his father’s old cooking pot:

it had sprouted a single foot of brassand was

hopping on the spotin the middle of the floor

making a fearful noise upon the flagstones. The

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6

wizard approached it in wonderbut fell back

hurriedly when he saw that the whole of the

pot’s surface was covered in warts.

“Disgusting object!” he criedand he tried

firstly to Vanish the potthen to clean it by

magicand finally to force it out of the house.

None of his spells workedhoweverand he was

unable to prevent the pot hopping after him out

of the kitchenand then following him up to

bedclanging and banging loudly on every

wooden stair.

The wizard could not sleep all night for the

banging of the warty old pot by his bedsideand

next morning the pot insisted upon hopping

after him to the breakfast table. Clangclang

clang

went the brass-footed potand the wizard

had not even started his porridge when there

came another knock on the door.

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7

An old man stood on the doorstep.

“’Tis my old donkeysir” he explained. “Lost

she isor stolenand without her I cannot take

my wares to marketand my family will go

hungry tonight.”

“And I am hungry now!” roared the wizard

and he slammed the door upon the old man.

Clangclangclang

went the cooking pot’s

single brass foot upon the floorbut now its

clamour was mixed with the brays of a donkey

and human groans of hungerechoing from the

depths of the pot.

“Be still. Be silent!” shrieked the wizardbut

not all his magical powers could quieten the

warty potwhich hopped at his heels all day

braying and groaning and clangingno matter

where he went or what he did.

That evening there came a third knock upon

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8

the doorand there on the threshold stood a

young woman sobbing as though her heart

would break.

“My baby is grievously ill” she said. “Won’t

you please help us? Your father bade me come if

troubled –”

But the wizard slammed the door on her.

And now the tormenting pot filled to the

brim with salt waterand slopped tears all over

the floor as it hoppedand brayedand groaned

and sprouted more warts.

Though no more villagers came to seek help at

the wizard’s cottage for the rest of the weekthe

pot kept him informed of their many ills.

Within a few daysit was not only braying and

groaning and slopping and hopping and sprout-

ing wartsit was also choking and retching

crying like a babywhining like a dogand

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9

spewing out bad cheese and sour milk and a

plague of hungry slugs.

The wizard could not sleep or eat with the pot

beside himbut the pot refused to leaveand he

could not silence it or force it to be still.

At last the wizard could bear it no more.

“Bring me all your problemsall your troubles

and your woes!” he screamedfleeing into the

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10

nightwith the pot hopping behind him along

the road into the village. “Come! Let me cure

youmend you and comfort you! I have my

father’s cooking potand I shall make you well!”

And with the foul pot still bounding along

behind himhe ran up the streetcasting spells

in every direction.

Inside one house the little girl’s warts van-

ished as she slept; the lost donkey was

Summoned from a distant briar patch and set

down softly in its stable; the sick baby was

doused in dittany and wokewell and rosy. At

every house of sickness and sorrowthe wizard

did his bestand gradually the cooking pot

beside him stopped groaning and retchingand

became quietshiny and clean.

“WellPot?” asked the trembling wizardas

the sun began to rise.

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11

The pot burped out the single slipper he had

thrown into itand permitted him to fit it on to

the brass foot. Togetherthey set off back to the

wizard’s housethe pot’s footstep muffled at last.

But from that day forwardthe wizard helped

the villagers like his father before himlest the

pot cast off its slipperand begin to hop once

more.

Albus Dumbledore on

“The Wizard and the Hopping Pot”

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