Quarter 2 Post 9

For Christmas, I got two really good books. One was The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling. The other was 100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of fairy tales, but they're for wizard children. There's also commentary by Albus Dumbledore. He talks about the social impact of these stories on wizarding children. My favorite is called The Fountain of Fair Fortune. It is about three witches who get selected to walk to a magic fountain, but a knight gets dragged along with them. They climb to the top and the first witch is cured of her incurable illness, the second is cured of her poverty, and the third is cured of all her sorrows, so they let the knight bathe in the fountain. The knight falls in love with the third witch, and they live happily ever after. I personally, however, find the commentaries more interesting, because Dumbledore is talking very frankly and humorously about the stories. 100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know is a book about mostly government conspiracies, but there are also some very interesting other stories. One I found especially humorous was the ability to mail letters for free. You see, you simply put your address on the "send to" address and the person's address on the "return to" address, and you don't add postage. So, the letter gets "returned to the sender", which is really the addressee! But it's illegal, so...