Beedle the Bard SPOILERS Babbity rabbity

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 185179

> a_svirn:
> Well, of cause Babbity herself is purely Potteresque. But is there 
> really anything more to it than mocking and gleefully exposing the 
> stupid muggle (!) King? Rowling even put "cackling" into the title 
> for crying (cackling) out loud. That's a sort of sound one makes 
> while mocking others. 


Alla:

So I went and reread Babbity, while specifically keeping "King's 
clothes" on the back of my mind.

I have to agree, Muggle King is totally being mocked, I do not know 
where I found pity or anything else.

However, however, I still do not get nearly the same feel as I get 
from Anderson's tale. I mean, Rowling makes a hero out of Babbity, 
doesn't she?

She saves the witches and wizards from the very real persecution, 
does she not?

>From Anderson's tale I get : mocking of the king and his adoring 
crowd of subjects, who because they worship him or afraid of him are 
afraid of pointing the obvious. Come to think of it, maybe I ought to 
reverse my initial argument. Maybe Anderson pities his King more, 
while also mocking him? I mean, Andreson's King is not really 
dangerous, no? He is not going around forbidding other dressmakers to 
do their craft.

With Rowling's tale, I get more of the foolishness transforming into 
the very real oppression and danger and Babbity fighting and winning, 
because of her creativity.

So, to make a long story short, yes, I acknowledge substantial plot 
similarities, no I do not believe it is derivative and it does not 
give me the same feel at all.

Oh and about the name, I am not hundred percent sure, but I believe 
that JKR said somewhere that she came up with the names before she 
decided to write a book or something like that and that it was the 
hardest for her to come with the tale for Babbity. I could be wrong.


JMO,

Alla