Video Showing "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" Security Measures and More Now Online

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Video Showing "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" Security Measures and More Now Online

Posted by: Edward

April 18, 2008, 03:12 AM

There is a new video online this evening from Yahoo!News which gives a closer look at “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” the handwritten and illustrated book by J. K. Rolwing containing five stories referenced in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” The video shows the immense security measures taken to guard this most valuable item and gives a few details on the unique aspects of the book. Daphne Durham, Managing Editor of Books for Amazon.com, is interviewed and reveals when viewing the book up close, you can tell the original text in the book was done in pencil, then followed over in ink by J. K. Rowling. Seeing details such as that, along with others, Miss Durham explains “is like shaking hands with the author.” Other topics including J. K. Rowling’s handwriting, the illustrations, and the upcoming Amazon.com contest to spend a weekend reading the book are also featured in this short video.

As readers will remember, Amazon.com announced the contest to win a trip to London and a private viewing of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” early last week. In order to enter the contest, those over the age of 13 are asked to “creatively write a short, English-language submission of 100 or fewer words answering one of the following three questions:

What songs do wizards use to celebrate birthdays?
What other sports do wizards play besides Quidditch?
What have you learned from the Harry Potter series that you use in everyday life?”

Submissions must be received by April 22nd. For more information and links to enter the contest, click here.

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Hope the winner has a good time reading The Tales of Beedle The Bard. And congraulations to Daphne Durham.

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Posted by starfish on April 17, 2008, 11:21 PM report to moderator

That was great video – seeing the book in a Pelican (brand) case and the handcuffs, whether just for show or not, are appropriate. The book is a treasure and I’m glad to see all the security (I don’t think Frak could take those two guards) I would hate for anything to happen to the book.

My feeling is that some time in the future the book will be published for all to see, but in a way I like the mystery and mystique surrounding it now. I LOVE that there is a Harry Potter artifact out there that still remains hidden. It’s comforting to know that we haven’t seen EVERYTHING yet!

Posted by Ravenclaw from Glenn on April 17, 2008, 11:28 PM report to moderator

I do hope that it gets published. There is a minute chance that anyone would win the competion.

Posted by jess on April 17, 2008, 11:35 PM report to moderator

I turn 13 in one month so I can’t enter. Such a let down. I agree with ‘jess’.

Posted by JKR 4 EVA on April 17, 2008, 11:37 PM report to moderator

I hope this book gets published so i can read it sometime

Posted by kristi d. on April 18, 2008, 12:17 AM report to moderator

Excellent news story with video!

Posted by Phoenix1946 on April 18, 2008, 12:39 AM report to moderator

Wow, it looks so beautiful, the book I mean! The one who wins this contest is going to be so very lucky!!

Posted by Prenz on April 18, 2008, 02:12 AM report to moderator

Good luck to all who enter! The new envy of the HP fandom.

I agree with Ravenclaw it’s kind of nice to imagine a treasure hunt for another significant Harry Potter artifact. How special those must mean to the people who received them.

Posted by Ginny on April 18, 2008, 03:20 AM report to moderator

Perhaps in the future, they’ll be some sort of Indiania Jones type, hunting for the lost “Tales of Beedle the Bard” hehe

Posted by Neil on April 18, 2008, 06:23 AM report to moderator

“Perhaps in the future, they’ll be some sort of Indiania Jones type, hunting for the lost “Tales of Beedle the Bard” hehe”

Yeah, and that way they’ll become the REAL Tales, as told about in ‘Deathly Hallows’! Are the stories real or not? How did they come in existence..?

Posted by emmy on April 18, 2008, 06:36 AM report to moderator

I just pictured Indiana Jones hunting for the lost “Tale of Beedle the Bard” lol. Do we know who was given the other copies?

Posted by Neil on April 18, 2008, 06:51 AM report to moderator

Damn it!! I couldn’t see my last post, so I thought it hadn’t post. Ignore my last ; )

Posted by Neil on April 18, 2008, 06:55 AM report to moderator

You can imagine in the future people trying to track down the locations of the legendary seven copies.

Posted by Quibbler on April 18, 2008, 07:33 AM report to moderator

Hey, on that Beedle the Bard newsvideo, they start by saying Jo burst out into crying on the trial – which, as far as I know, hasn’t happened? How many journalists bend the truth- you start noticing it now!

Posted by emmy on April 18, 2008, 08:06 AM report to moderator

I want to read that book! : (

Posted by matea on April 18, 2008, 08:16 AM report to moderator

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