Nice addition, but not really necessary
„The Tales of Beedle the Bard“ are an addition to the magical world of Harry Potter. Not only has Beedle the Bard been mentioned several times throughout the books, but one of his tales has played a major role during the final battle of Hogwarts. This little book gives you five different tales with also very different messages for the young witch or wizard reading it. It has been translated by Hermione Granger and contains notes / comments from Albus Dumbledore himself.
In my opinion this book is nothing special. The tales are really not that great but Dumbledore’s commentary kind of made up for that. It was interesting to learn his opinion on each of the stories and get a few additional infos. While some of the stories were kind of nice and also suitable for children, others were pretty brutal and I’m not sure how they ended up in a book full of kid stories. Nevertheless I would say that each of them had a quite important message and a lot of them were rather in favor of the muggle world. It definitely is a nice little addition to everything we already know about the Harry Potter World.
If you are a true Harry Potter Fan you should not miss out on this one but if you are not there’s no real need for you to read this book. I would rate it 3 stars just because of Dumbledore’s fun and interesting comments.