The Warlock’s Hairy Heart

The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K.Rowling (The Warlock’s Hairy Heart)

I have read The Tales of Beedle the Bard which were written by J.K.Rowling. This book is a compilation of 5 shorts stories for kids or in this case young wizard or witch. The stories are The Wizard and The Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlock’s Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump and the infamous The Tale of The Three Brothers.

                The story that I’ve chosen for this month is The Warlock’s Hairy Heart. This story is about a warlock that observed all of his friends grew foolish when they fell in love. Because of this, he swore to never fall in love. “And employed Dark Arts to ensure his immunity”.

                For this month book review, the response that I should give is about an interesting event. The story gets more interesting when the guest that attends the feast searched for the warlock and the maiden when they realized that they had gone missing for a few hours. When they had finally found them, they discovered “the maiden lay dead upon the floor, her breast cut open, and beside her crouched the mad warlock, holding in one bloody hand a great, smooth, shining  scarlet heart, which he licked and stroked, vowing to exchange for his own.”

The warlock then tried to replace his heart with the maiden’s smooth beautiful one using his wand but he failed. “The hairy heart was stronger than he was, and refused to relinquish its hold upon his senses or to return to the coffin in which it had been locked for so long.”

                 So the warlock angered by his heart stronghold in his chest, he vowed to never be mastered by his own heart. He put aside his wand and hacked his hairy heart from his chest with a silver dagger.

                For a moment, the warlock felt triumph holding his hairy chest in his hand, and fell across the maiden’s dead body and died.

Atiqah Syahmina Binti Azlan

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30 March 2014