I read a book called The Tales of Beedle The Bard and it was used in the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.  In this book there are five stories called, The Wizard and The Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlock’s Hairy Heart, Babbity Rabbity and her Cackling Stump, and The Tale of the Three Brothers.  These stories also have comments by Albus Dumbledore.  The Warlock’s Hairy Heart is my least favorite story because it is very gruesome when a warlock locks away his heart after his friends act foolishly when picking a wife.  But, after he finds a beautiful women to love he takes his heart, which has become hairy, until he finds out that his heart has changed.  But, by the time he takes his heart out, it is too late.  He then opens her chest and takes out her scarlet heart vowing to exchange it for his own, but instead they both lie dead upon each others bodies.  If you aren’t into that kind of story, there are more stories that have happy endings, such as The Fountain of Fair Fortune, where the gates finally open letting only the people that it claims worthy.  The gates opened to three young women and a knight, to the Fountain of Fair Fortune.  In order to reach their goal, they have to overcome many obstacles, and on the way they realize that they have everything that they need and the one who needs the Fountain of Fair Fortunt the most is the knight, who has no magical power.  This is a great book that I would recomend for boys and girls 10+, who like adventurous stories.

-Erin W.