Illustration for "The Tale of the Three Brothers" for a new edition of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, for Bloomsbury. The Tale of the Three Brothers is a very important fairy tale to Harry and his friends. It follows the fates of three brothers and their meeting with Death, who is angry at them for evading him. Pretending to be impressed, he grants them each one wish. The oldest brother asks for a powerful wand, the middle asks for the ability to resurrect the dead and the youngest slyly asks for a way to stop Death following him. Death reluctantly grants him an invisibility cloak, the same cloak that Harry is bequeathed by his own father.