Harry Potter · Book 10

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

by J. K. Rowling

Published
4 December 2008
Pages
127
ISBN-13
9780545128285
Type
companion

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About this book

The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2008, 127 pages) is a fairy-tale companion volume that collects the stories referenced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- tales that matter directly to the plot of the seventh novel, though the companion itself is optional reading best left until after the main series.

Its place in Harry Potter

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is book 10 in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It is followed by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. See the full Harry Potter reading order.

Harry Potter follows an orphaned boy who discovers, on his eleventh birthday, that he is a wizard — and that the hidden magical world has been waiting for him. Whisked from a miserable cupboard under the stairs to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry finds friendship with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, a talent for the broomstick sport of Quidditch, and a destiny tangled with the dark wizard who murdered his parents. Across seven novels, J. K. Rowling grows the story up alongside its readers. The…

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