The Warlock's Hairy Heart
From Tales of Beedle The Bard, JK Rowling
The Warlock's Hairy Heart from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
There was once a Prince who lived in a castle. He turned to the Dark Arts and summoned a potion to make him immune to love which he thought made his friends look silly.
"I need a potion to make me immune to love which is work and leads to children and family, which is a hassle."
He drinks down the potion.
One day, two of his servants were talking. One pitied him for, in spite of having wealth, had been unable to attain a bride. The other openly laughed at him.
One day, at a dance, while showing off his moves, he met a fine lady.
He offered to take her downstairs to show her his heart. She thought, how original, not knowing that he was being literal when he said this.
Downstairs, in a box, was his heart which he showed her. It was withered from being away from a human for so long and it had grown hairy because it had acquired a beastly nature.
The lady begged him to put the heart back into his chest.
"But if the heart is in there, that means you don't have a heart?! You should put that heart back where it belongs!"
So he took out a dagger, cut open his chest, and put that heart back in his chest and as soon as he did, because of the beastly nature he had, he killed the woman he was with like a wolf, biting her in the neck. She died.
In a bloody heap, he tried to cut out the beast heart and replace it with the lady's heart of which he had also cut open her chest with a knife and cut out her heart.
That is when the other guests of the party arrived and witnessed this scene.
Albus Dumbledore's notes on The Warlock's Hairy Heart
This story addresses one of the greatest temptations of magic. The quest for invulnerability.
No human has ever escaped some form of injury be it physical, mental or emotional. To hurt is as human to breathe. However, this wizard sees love as a kind of humiliation.
Remember Adalbert Waffling's Fundamental Law of Magic:
Tamper with the deepest mysteries - the source of life, the essence of self - only if prepared for the consequences of the most extreme and dangerous kind.
Remember,
my maiden Aunt Honoria once called off a wedding to a man whom she discovered had a hairy heart. It was rumoured however that she caught him fondling horklumps which are pink, bristly mushroom like creatures and why anyone would want to fondle something like that.....
Afterword: Closing credits:
JK Rowling wrote this book in 2007 which she had seven handwritten copies, six of which she had given to friends and the seventh which was eventually auctioned for $2 million dollars.
In 2008, she released the novel for general publication, of which here is a copy!
I bought it at a bookstore about four months ago. I was wondering whether or not to do a cartoon of this, however, looking on YouTube, I saw that a few other people had made some cartoons of Harry Potter, so I thought, then I could do one.
narrating closing segment for Warlock's Hairy Heart from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
http://www.vimeo.com/3985979
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