Beedle the Bard SPOILERS The Warlock and his hairy heart

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So, the Beedle. I really love fairy tales and honestly, for me it was 
no question whether to buy them or not, because even if they would 
not have added anything to HP World, I could not wait to see how good 
JKR is at fairy tales writing.

Honestly, from the retelling of the Three brothers tale in DH I was 
not much impressed by it. I mean, no scratch that, I thought it fit 
very well in the story and advanced it, however the story on its own 
was a bit blah and so what for my taste.

After reading the Beedle, the tale of three brothers is still my 
least favorite of the five tales. However, boy I think JKR can write 
a fairy tale very well and even make them original enough. I mean, of 
course I do not think she created the wheel here, of course not, but 
to me she made those tales fresh and exciting enough.

Take Warlock and its Hairy heart for example. When I started reading 
this tale I was thinking oh, it reminds me of "A Heart of Stone" by 
Gauf (spelling?) where young Peter Munk due to his own idiocy and 
succumbing to gambling addiction in essense gives up his heart and 
ends up with stone one.

I mean, when I say reminds me, really the plot is totally different, 
it is just the separation of the heart from the body for the bad, 
very bad reason is what those tales have in common.

However, A heart of stone ends up on uplifting note, since Peter 
manages to get his heart back after hard work and lots of remorse.

Young warlock in JKR's tale, however as we learn ends up dead on the 
floor...

I, well, I definitely preferred the ending in the Heart of stone. 
However, I found Warlock to be a story very well done.

I was wondering if JKR meant to say something about Snape in this 
tale as well, especially when she mentioned young warlock's excessive 
pride and dungeons. However, after reflecting I thought that Snape 
seems to be the exact opposite to the guy in this tale. Snape seemed 
to love too much, if it is possible to love too much?

Is JKR saying that excessive love is just as bad as no love at all?

Alla