Which Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling contains the chapter titled “The Tale of the Three Brothers”?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows contains the chapter titled “The Tale of the Three Brothers.”

Hermione Granger reads the story aloud from The Tales of Beedle the Bard in Xenophilius Lovegood’s home. The tale describes three brothers who receive magical gifts from Death: the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility.

The three objects are collectively called the Deathly Hallows. Harry, Ron, and Hermione gradually connect the story’s symbols to real artefacts and to the history of Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald. Harry already possesses the invisibility cloak, while Voldemort seeks the Elder Wand and the Resurrection Stone has belonged to the Gaunt family.

The chapter is sometimes remembered as a separate fairy-tale book, but its appearance in the main narrative is in Deathly Hallows. Rowling later published The Tales of Beedle the Bard as a standalone companion volume in 2008.