Let's Read Tales Of Beedle The Bard: Part Three: The Warlock's Hairy Heart.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Because I'm having horrible writer's block regarding a Matthew Stover poem, I've decided to update my Tales of Beedle The Bard recaps! :D

Kyoshi Warrior gear, don't fail me now...



Summary Of The Story: Guy doesn't want to fall in love -- because he kind of thinks that falling in love is for pussies. :P -- so he seals his heart away in a distant room. Fair maiden arrives to help him out. Guy's hairy heart (?!) causes him to start falling in lust or something (?!?!?!?!), so he kills the maiden and then himself. Reader is left to mop up the chunks of brain that have shot out her nose. :P

Dumbledore's Commentary: Nothing too offensive so far...mostly seems that Dumbledore's commenting on how disturbing the tale is, and an anecdote of Beatrix Bloxam being traumatized by the story as a kid, which pretty much started off her...crusade, so to speak (and even though I know I'm not supposed to like her, that story just makes me smile, because it's one of those rare instances real life seems to seep in. *Pets her and gives her warm milk* :) Which sums up most of Rowling's so-called "unlikeable" characters, IMHO). Preaching on about "the power of love", blah blah blah...look, Dumbles, if it weren't for the way the Power of Love was presented in the books, I'd probably find your interpretation pretty credible.

Ironically, it's one of those moments when I welcome the commentary, if only because the story was really, really confusing. Which absolutely kills me.


Dumbles Rage-O-Meter: 5. In tolerable range. And if *that's* normal range...yeah, be very afraid. :P








So yeah...this is probably the point THE TALES OF BEEDLE THE BARD starts to go a little wacky. Be very afraid. :P

Comments

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

-I was mostly being flippant when I made the remark about the warlock. But good point. :)

-Beatrix Bloxam is kind of a caricature of Laura Mallory, who was one of the people who kept going on about HP promoting witchcraft (which honestly, is the *least* of the kid-unfriendliness, IMHO), so Rowling kind of threw in a sort of Take That Fundamentalists. You know, kind of like LADY IN THE WATER, only...more pointless. :P

-Yeah...according to Dumbledore...hold on a second...*Takes out copy of BEEDLE THE BARD*: "The heart he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolizing his own descent into beasthood. He is finally reduced to a violent aimal who takes what he wants by force, and he dies in a futile attempt to regan what is now forever beyond his reach -- a human heart." (59)

Honestly, I thought it was getting moldy or something. Either way, ewww. (Although the former manages to hit the Unfortunate Implications trifecta, so...you come to your own conclusions)

Let's say that "The Warlock's Hairy Heart" just...didn't make sense. Guy doesn't want to sleep with girls, so he...goes nuts? He...kills himself and the girl?

Thanks for the feedback, BTW. I hope I haven't made you angry or something. :)

[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

"The heart he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolizing his own descent into beasthood. He is finally reduced to a violent aimal who takes what he wants by force, and he dies in a futile attempt to regan what is now forever beyond his reach -- a human heart." (59)

So now we can add speciesism to Rowling's other sins. Never mind that every cat or dog I've ever met is far more capable of unselfish love than any human character in the Potterverse.