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(Photo by David Cheskin-Pool/Getty Images)Getty Images—2008 Getty Images  by [Andrew R. Chow](https://time.com/author/andrew-r-chow/)  ## Andrew R. Chow Correspondent Feb 26, 2020 2:00 PM UTC 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/) _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) 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/)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/) 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) 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). 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). 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' Will Be an Audiobook ```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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