Story board:
Here on these four connecting pages, I have had to created one story board for each page, ie: One for my first animation, and one for my second animation. I have also dedicated two pages for Fonts and for my Script.
The Tale of The Three Brothers:
This is a fairy tale told to wizard children. Supposedly written by Beedle the Bard, it is published as part of a series of works that collectively are called: The Tales of Beedle the Bard. While most wizards view this story as one that teaches children morals (e.g. humility, wisdom, etc.), some believe that the story refers to the Deathly Hallows, three highly powerful magical artefacts coveted by generations of wizards.
The three objects that are mentioned during the tale are meant to be the Deathly Hallows, the most powerful magical objects in existence. The Elder Wand is the unbeatable wand of the oldest brother, the Resurrection Stone is the stone given to the second brother, and the Cloak of Invisibility is the cloak given to the third brother that could hide the wearer even from Death. It is believed that whoever succeeds in uniting all three of the Hallows would become the Master of Death. Xenophilius Lovegood, Gellert Grindelwald, and Albus Dumbledore were among those who believed in these items and their continued existence.
This is a fairy tale told to wizard children. Supposedly written by Beedle the Bard, it is published as part of a series of works that collectively are called: The Tales of Beedle the Bard. While most wizards view this story as one that teaches children morals (e.g. humility, wisdom, etc.), some believe that the story refers to the Deathly Hallows, three highly powerful magical artefacts coveted by generations of wizards.
The three objects that are mentioned during the tale are meant to be the Deathly Hallows, the most powerful magical objects in existence. The Elder Wand is the unbeatable wand of the oldest brother, the Resurrection Stone is the stone given to the second brother, and the Cloak of Invisibility is the cloak given to the third brother that could hide the wearer even from Death. It is believed that whoever succeeds in uniting all three of the Hallows would become the Master of Death. Xenophilius Lovegood, Gellert Grindelwald, and Albus Dumbledore were among those who believed in these items and their continued existence.
This is the story of The Tale Of The Three Brothers, in word form:
-- There were once three brothers, who were travelling along, a lonely, winding road at Twilight. In time, the brothers reached a river, too treacherous to pass, but being learned in the magical arts, the brothers simply waved their wands, and made a bridge. Before they could cross however, they found their path blocked by a hooded figure.
It was Death, and he felt cheated. Cheated because, travellers would normally drown in the river. But Death was cunning. He pretended to congratulate the three brothers on their magic, and said that each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade him.
The oldest, asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence. So Death fashioned him one from an Elder Tree that stood nearby. The second brother, decided he wanted to humiliate Death even further, and asked for the power to recall loved ones from the Grave. So, Death plucked a stone from the river and offered it to him.
Finally, Death turned to the third brother, a humble man he asked for something that would allow him to go forth from that place without being followed by Death. And so it was, that Death reluctantly handed over his own Cloak of Invisibility.
The first brother travelled to a distant village, where, with the Elder Wand in hand he killed a wizard, with whom he had once quarreled. Drunk, with the power that the Elder Wand had given him, he bragged of his invincibility.
But that night, another wizard stole the wand and slit the brothers throat for good measure.
And so, Death took the first brother for his own.
The second brother journed to his home, where he took the stone and turned it thrice in hand. To his delight the girl he had once hoped to marry before her untimely death, appeared before him. Yet, she soon turned sad, and cold for she did not belong in the mortal world. Driven mad with hopeless longing, the second brother killed himself so as to join her.
And so, Death took the second brother.
As for the third brother, Death searched for many years, but he was never able to find him. Only when he attained a great age did the youngest brother shed the Cloak of Invisibility and give it to his son. He then greeted Death as an old friend, who went with him gladly, departing this life, as equals. --
It was Death, and he felt cheated. Cheated because, travellers would normally drown in the river. But Death was cunning. He pretended to congratulate the three brothers on their magic, and said that each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade him.
The oldest, asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence. So Death fashioned him one from an Elder Tree that stood nearby. The second brother, decided he wanted to humiliate Death even further, and asked for the power to recall loved ones from the Grave. So, Death plucked a stone from the river and offered it to him.
Finally, Death turned to the third brother, a humble man he asked for something that would allow him to go forth from that place without being followed by Death. And so it was, that Death reluctantly handed over his own Cloak of Invisibility.
The first brother travelled to a distant village, where, with the Elder Wand in hand he killed a wizard, with whom he had once quarreled. Drunk, with the power that the Elder Wand had given him, he bragged of his invincibility.
But that night, another wizard stole the wand and slit the brothers throat for good measure.
And so, Death took the first brother for his own.
The second brother journed to his home, where he took the stone and turned it thrice in hand. To his delight the girl he had once hoped to marry before her untimely death, appeared before him. Yet, she soon turned sad, and cold for she did not belong in the mortal world. Driven mad with hopeless longing, the second brother killed himself so as to join her.
And so, Death took the second brother.
As for the third brother, Death searched for many years, but he was never able to find him. Only when he attained a great age did the youngest brother shed the Cloak of Invisibility and give it to his son. He then greeted Death as an old friend, who went with him gladly, departing this life, as equals. --
Albus Dumbledore on The Tales of the Three Brothers' taken from: The Tales of Beedle The Bard:
This story made a profound impression on me as a boy. I heard it first from my mother, and it soon became the tale I requested more often than my other at bedtime. This frequently led to arguments with my younger brother, Aberforth, whose favourite story was 'Grumble the Grubby Goat'.
The moral of 'The Tale of the Three Brothers' could not be any clearer: human efforts to evade and overcome death are always doomed to disappointment. The Third brother is the story ('the humblest and also the wisest') is the only one who understand that, having narrowly escaped Death once, the best he can hope for is to postpone their next meeting for as long as possible. This youngest brother knows that taunting Death - by engaging in violence, like the first brother, or by meddling in the shadowy art of necromancy, like the second brother - means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.
The irony is that a curious legend has grown up around this story, which precisely contradicts the message of the original. This legend holds that the gifts Death gives the brothers - an unbeatable wand, a stone that can bring back the dead, and an Invisibility Cloak that endures for ever - are genuine objects that exist in the real world. The legend goes further: if any person becomes the rightful owner of all three, then he or she will become 'Master of Death', which has usually been understood to mean that they will be invulnerable, even immortal.
We may smile, a little, sadly, as what this tells us about human nature.
The kindest interpretation would be: 'Hope springs eternal'. In spite of the fact that, according to Beedle, two of the three objects are highly dangerous, in spite of the clear message that Death comes for us all in the end, a tiny minority of the wizarding community persists in believing that Beedle was sending them a coded message, which is the exact reverse of the one set down in ink, and that they alone are clever enough to understand it.
Their theory (or perhaps 'desperate hope' might be a more accurate term) is supported by little actual evidence. True Invisibility Cloaks, though rare, exist in this world of ours; however, the story makes it clear the Death's Cloak is of uniquely durable nature. Through all the centuries that have intervened between Beedle's day and our own, nobody has ever claimed to have found Death's Cloak. This is explained away by true believers thus: either the third brother's descendants do not know and are determined to show their ancestor's wisdom by not trumpeting the fact.
Naturally enough, the stone has never been found, either. We remain incapable of raising the dead, and there is every reason to suppose that this will never happen. Vile substitutions have, of course, been attempted by Dark wizards, who has created Inferi, but these are ghastly puppets, not truly reawoken humans. What is more, Beedle's story is quite explicit about the fact that the second brother's lost love has not really returned from the dead. She has been sent by Death to lure the second brother into Death's clutches, and is therefore cold, remote, tantalizingly both present and absent.
This leaves us with the wand, and here the obstinate believers in Beedle's hidden message have at least some historical evidence to back up their wild claims. For it is the case - whether because they liked to glorify themselves, or to intimidate possible attackers, or because they truly believed what they were saying - that wizards down the ages have claimed to possess a wand more powerful than the ordinary, even an 'unbeatable' wand. Some of these wizards have so far as to claim that their wand is made of elder, like the wand supposedly made by Death. Such wands have been given many names, among them 'the Wand of Destiny' and #the Deathstick'.
It is hardly surprising that old superstitions have grown up around our wands, which are, after all, our most important magical tools and weapons. Certain wands (and therefore their owners) are supposed to be incompatible:
When his wand's oak and hers is holly,
Then to marry would be folly.
or to denote flaws in the owner's character:
Rowan gossips, chestnut drones,
Ash is stubborn, hazel moans.
And sure enough, within this category of unproven sayings we find:
Wand of elder, never prosper.
Whether because of the fact that Death makes the fictional wand out of elder in Beedle's story, or because power-hungry or violent wizards have persistently claimed that their own wands are made of elder, it is not a wood that is much favoured among wandmakers.
The first well-documented mention of a wand made of elder that had particularly strong and dangerous powers was owned by Emeric, commonly called "the Evil", a short-lived but exceptionally aggressive wizard who terrorized the South of England in the early middle Ages. He died as he had lived, in a ferocious duel with a wizard known as Egbert. What became of Egbert is unknown, although the life expectancy of medieval duellers was generally short. In the days before there was a Ministry of Magic to regulate the use of Dark Magic, duelling was usually fatal.
A full century later, another unpleasant character, this time named Godelot, advanced the study of Dark Magic by writing a collection of dangerous spells with the help of a wand he described in his notebook as "my moste wicked and subtle friend, with body of Ellhorn, who knows ways of magick moste evile". (Magick Moste Evile became the title of Godelot's masterwork.)
As can be seen, Godelot considers his wand to be a helpmeet, almost an instructor. Those who are knowledgeable about wandlore will agree that wands do indeed absorb the expertise of those who use them, though this is an unpredictable and imperfect business; one must consider all kinds of additional factors, such as the relationship between the wand and the user, with any particular individual. Nevertheless, a hypothetical wand that had passed through the hands of many Dark wizards would be likely to have, at the very least, a marked affinity for the most dangerous kinds of magic.
Most witches and wizards prefer a wand that has 'chosen' them to any kind of second-hand wand, precisely because the latter is likely to have learned habits from its previous owner that might not be compatible with the new user's style of magic. The general practice of burying (or burning) the wand with its owner, once he or she has died, also tends to prevent any individual wand learning from too many masters. Believers in the Elder wand, however, hold that because of the way in which it has always passed allegiance the first, usually by killing him - the Elder Wand has never been destroyed or buried, but has survived to accumulate wisdom, strength and power far beyond the ordinary.
Godelot is known to have perished in his own cellar, where he was locked by his mad son, Hereward. We must assume that Hereward took his father's wand, or the latter would have been able to escape, but what Hereward did with the wand after that we cannot be sure. All that is certain is that a wand called 'the Eldrun Wand' by its owner, Barnabus Deverill, appeared in the early eighteenth century, and that Deverill used it to carve himself out a reputation as a fearsome warlock, until his reign of terror was ended by the equally notorious Loxias, who took the wand, rechristened it 'the Deathstick', and used it to lay waste to anyone who displeased him. It was difficult to trace the subsequent history of Loxias's wand, as many claimed to have finished him off, including his own mother.
What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to owned it has insisted that it is 'unbeatable', when the known facts of its passage through many owners' wands demonstrate that not only has it been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies. Ultimately, the quest for the Elder Wand merely supports an observation I have had occasion to make many times over the course of my long life: that humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
But which of would have shown the wisdom of the third brother, if offered the pick of Death's gifts? Wizards and Muggles alike are imbued with a lust of power; how many would resist 'the Wand of Destiny'? Which human being, having lost someone they loved, could withstand the temptation of the Resurrection Stone? Even I, Albus Dumbledore, would find it easiest to refuse the Invisibilty Cloak; which only goes to show that, clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.