--- description: J.K. Rowling's wizarding fairytales will get the audiobook treatment, with narration by "Harry Potter" film alums including Jude Law and Evanna Lynch. title: 'Harry Potter' Film and Stage Actors Join Forces for a New Wizarding World Project image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e3d81edadf2a3a8/698a0aac457a5247a4d63950/GettyImages-83914237.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Harry Potter_ Film and Stage Actors Join Forces for a New Wizarding World Project  by [Andrew R. Chow](/author/andrew-r-chow/)  ## Andrew R. Chow Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Feb 26, 2020 2:00 PM CUT  EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 04: Author JK Rowling reads passages from her new book,'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' to 200 school children at the National Library in Edinburgh on December 4, 2008 in Scotland. (Photo by David Cheskin-Pool/Getty Images) EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 04: Author JK Rowling reads passages from her new book,'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' to 200 school children at the National Library in Edinburgh on December 4, 2008 in Scotland. (Photo by David Cheskin-Pool/Getty Images)Getty Images—2008 Getty Images  by [Andrew R. Chow](/author/andrew-r-chow/)  ## Andrew R. Chow Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Feb 26, 2020 2:00 PM CUT Actors who have played Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore and Ginny Weasley in film and onstage will lend their voices to a new piece of the Harry Potter extended universe: an audiobook adaptation of [J.K. Rowling’s](https://time.com/3741/harry-potter-plot-problems/ "undefined") _The Tales of Beedle the Bard_. The fictional stories played a pivotal role in _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_ as Dumbledore’s parting gift to Hermione; the tales then laid the groundwork for the novel’s central conflict. But _The Tales of Beedle the Bard_ has never been officially released as an audiobook—until now. On March 31, Audible will release the tales with some help from some familiar voices. Noma Dumezweni, who played a grown-up Hermione in _The Cursed Child_ on the West End and Broadway, will read the most famous of the stories: _The Tale of the Three Brothers_, which explains the origins of the Deathly Hallows. Emma Watson, who played Hermione in the film series, [read the story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-cCDtwsX-g "undefined") in the _Deathly Hallows_ film. Three actors from the original film series—Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) will each read a story apiece, taking on _The Warlock’s Hairy Heart_, _The Fountain of Fair Fortune_ and _Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump_, respectively. And Jude Law, who plays Albus Dumbledore in the [_Fantastic Beasts_ ](https://time.com/5450165/fantastic-beasts-harry-potter/ "undefined")film series, will read Dumbledore’s annotations about the stories. Over the years, J.K. Rowling has fleshed out the [world of Harry Potter](https://time.com/4859407/harry-potter-heartwarming-moments/ "undefined") by writing full versions of books that appear in the Hogwarts library. In 2001, she published _Quidditch Through the Ages_ and _Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them_, with proceeds going to charity. In creating _The Tales of Beedle the Bard_, she wrote under the guise of a 15th-century wizard who penned fairytales that, in the wizarding world, had become as ubiquitous as Aesop’s Fables in ours. Rowling[ said that she was particularly inspired](http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0730-bloomsbury-chat.html "undefined") by Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale.” Before releasing the book in 2008, she first put just seven handwritten versions of the work up for auction in 2007; [one of them was bought for $4 million by Amazon](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-rowling-idUSN1427375920071214 "undefined"). Audiobooks have also been a key part of the _Harry Potter_ canon: The original set, read by Jim Dale, were immensely popular and landed Dale a [Grammy Award](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/books/17dale.html "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5790614/harry-potter-beedle-the-bard-audiobook/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5790614/harry-potter-beedle-the-bard-audiobook/"},"headline":"Harry Potter Film and Stage Actors Join Forces for a New Wizarding World Project","datePublished":"2020-02-26T14:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T08:18:45.538Z","description":"J.K. 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