How Would Muggle Fairy Tales Change If Set in the Wizarding World?

We know wizards are familiar with the magical tales by Beedle the Bard, but what about the classic Muggle fairy tales we know and love? Ron seemed taken aback by them when Hermione listed a few in "Deathly Hallows", but perhaps these fantastic tales could quite easily be adapted to fit in with the likes of "Babbity Rabbity and Her Cackling Stump" and "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot."

If we look at the Grimm version of this tale, there's no mention of a fairy godmother. Instead, Cinderella recites short chants, and her bird friends come to her aid. What if Cinderella was a young and untrained witch whose magic came to help her when she was scared or in need? That alone sounds familiar, but the use of birds is also quite similar to Hermione's birds attacking Ron in Book 6 as they attack the evil stepsisters and peck out their eyes at the story's end.

For this retelling, I'm going to stick closer to Disney's 2010 version (mostly because I'm in love with "Tangled") where the central conflict revolves around the magical healing properties of Rapunzel's hair. Maybe it wasn't necessarily a specific flower, but the whole potion concocted and consumed by Rapunzel's mother during the pregnancy that gave the baby's hair healing power. Rapunzel's hair is a wildly sought commodity, and she's eventually gifted to the giants to gain their alliance in a war between kingdoms. They lock the princess away in a tower until a handsome, skilled wizard, at last, comes to save her. With a story like that, it would be no wonder wizard children grew up fearing giants.

Let's be real here for a second: "The Elves and the Shoemaker" is already magical. These elves are very clearly house-elves, as made evident by the fact that the shoemaker's wife presents them with clothes, after which they vanish, never to be seen again. She unwittingly frees the elves, and they make like Dobby and get out of there. Perhaps this story doesn't entertain wizards because they know all about house-elves, but it makes sense why Muggles would love a story about helpful, friendly, little elves.

Marketing this tale to wizards is simple enough if you change the fairies into witches. As a witch, the woman who was uninvited could totally transfigure herself into a ferocious dragon to face off against the prince who comes to rescue the princess from the curse the witch placed on her. Naturally, we would want to stick with the more Disney version because dragons are great, and they make stories so much more interesting. So what's the moral of that story? I'd say it's a lesson about treating Muggles with kindness so they don't send sword-brandishing princes after you. Besides, they really should have just invited everyone and saved themselves a whole lot of trouble...

This one is easy, but it’s also probably my favorite. The hard-hearted prince is actually a pure-blood wizard who has a curse cast upon him by the scorned witch he turns away, thinking her naught but a lowly Muggle peasant. He is transfigured into an ugly beast and must win the true love of a Muggle girl, or he will forever remain a beast. Naturally, he manages to do just that, making this another story with a moral of wizard-Muggle relations.