achtervulgan315:

Not to Harry Potter on main (I don’t have a side blog, so I have nowhere else to go), but I was thinking about the three Black sisters—Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa.

I’m sure we all remember “The Tale of Three Brothers” from The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Three brothers manage to cheat Death and ask for three gifts. The eldest seeks power, and asks for an unbeatable wand, the Elder Wand. The middle yearns for his loved ones, and receives the Resurrection Stone. And the youngest, the wisest(?), asks for a way to hide from Death and receives the Invisibiltiy Cloak.

Death comes for the two oldest brothers in the end, but cannot find the youngest, who eventually meets Death as a friend.

Anyway, this story parallels eerily with the Three Black Sisters.

Bellatrix, the eldest, craves power beyond anything else. She joins Voldemort, and the Elder Wand, and is ultimately killed.

Andromeda, the middle, wants to love who she wants and have a family of her own, much like the Resurrection Stone. She gets it, but at the cost of death and destruction.

Narcissa, the youngest, desires anonymity in Voldemort’s army. Her husband and son are ambitious, but she wants to protect, shield, and hide her family from the dangers of the war. Sounds like the Invisibility Cloak. She and her family all survive.

I’m sure others have already noticed this, but this parallelism is low-key astounding, whether it was intentional or not.