Babbity Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump

[Author By Night]

Does else really like that the hero is not only female, but an elderly witch?

[queenie]

Kind of makes me think of Nanny Ogg from Discworld. I can totally see her pulling this trick, too.

And it is nice to see an elderly lady pulling the wool over the eyes of the king and his magician. Plus the bit about a rabbit being seen crossing the Channel to France just made me lol.

[vegablack]

A rabbit swimming the channel was very funny. ;D

I thought the hero seemed like a sympthetic view of a classic old crone witch. I loved her.

[dancingpony]

I liked the Babbitty character.
I thought it was odd, though, that Beedle stated the "true" witches and wizards who lived in the vicinity of the foolish King were hiding from the witch hunters and their dogs. How could the witch hunters and the dogs harm a true witch or wizard?
Granted, witches and wizards prefer not to make themselves known to muggles, and they would know the King's request for a magic instructor was ridiculous. But Beedle didn't say "the true witches and wizards laughed at the foolish King's request and went about their business" -- he said the true witches and wizards were in hiding.

[vegablack]

I suppose that crowds of Muggles could at times get control of true witches. Nearly-headless Nick was captured without his wand somehow and then executed by Muggles. (Proof that you can't Apparate without a wand, a major question on the old Sugar Quill boards.) How that worked enough that large numbers needed to hide is hard to imagine. Maybe anti-muggle protections spells were not as developed then. It would make sense that their was growth over time in skills and magical knowledge. Its implied in the existence of such magazines as Tranfiguration today and Questions in Transfiguration or titles like that.