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If we trace the origins of the most powerful magical artifacts in history, the Deathly

Hallows, the trail always leads back to one family, the

Peverels.

Three brothers whose story exists somewhere between myth and memory, remembered in children's

tales but also immortalized in wizarding history.

To begin to unravel their story, we have to separate myth from memory and uncover the truth

buried beneath a thousand years of legend.

And there's no better place to start than the story every wizard knows by heart, first

written down by Beetle the Bard in the 15th century, the tale of the three brothers.

There were once three brothers who were travelling along a lonely,

winding road at twilight. In time, the brothers reached a river, too deep to wade through,

and too dangerous to swim. However, these brothers were learned in the magical arts,

and so they simply waved to their wands and made a bridge appear across the treacherous water.

They were halfway across it when they found their path blocked by a hooded figure,

and to death spoke to them.

He was angry that he had been cheated out of three new victims,

for travellers usually drowned in the river.

But death was cunning.

He pretended to congratulate the three brothers

upon their magic, and said that each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade

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