Tonight at 12:01 am (Thursday) The Tales of Beedle the Bard will be released to the public, all around the world. It may not be as exciting as Deathly Hallows, but I think it’s enough to get excited about! How can Harry Potter fans not buy it?

It’s a book written by J.K. Rowling, first of all. It’s the first we’re really seeing into the HP world after DH, so we can learn more about their culture and life, especially of non-Hogwarts stuff. We can see how normal wizards interact, as well as how they are with 16th century Muggles. Then, there’s Dumbledore’s commentary, which I am really excited about! Albud Dumbledore is speaking from beyond the grave with his personal notes on the Tales, which he obviously saw as deeper than just children’s stories. Which leads me to my next point, these tales are fairy tales! They are a great insight of the moral/ethical values of wizards–the ones indoctrinated when they’re children by their parents. It should also show us JKR’s morals, and probably some of the themes of the Potter books that we’ve seen so far.

So there’s probably something for any Potter fan in these Tales, from Dumbledore character development to fun old literary analysis. Why aren’t 400,000,000 copies being printed then?