The youngest brother however did not trust the Death so he chose to ask for something which would allow him to go forth without Death being able to follow him. Reluctantly, the Death gave the youngest brother a part of his Cloak of Invisibility.
The brothers went their separate ways, each holding onto the gift Death gave them. Soon enough Death would have its revenge. The oldest brother used the Elder Wand in his duel with one of his enemies in a nearby village where he lived.
After the duel, the oldest brother killed the wizard instantly and started bragging about the invincibility of his wand and retelling the story of how the Death gave it to him. Once he made it to a nearby inn, he chose to stay there for the night, however unbeknownst to him while he was sleeping a drunk, murderous wizard crept into his room, slit his throat, and stole his wand.
The oldest brother died drunk in power. The middle brother returned to his home and used the stone Death had given him to bring back a girl he loved before her untimely death. The girl appeared before his eyes, returning to the mortal world, but she did not truly belong there and that caused her to suffer. She also did not return in flesh but merely as a spirit, which caused the middle brother even more pain and longing.
After realizing how sad and cold the girl was in the mortal world and how unhappy his actions made her, the middle brother was driven to insanity. He hung himself from the balcony in his house to truly rejoin with her. The middle brother died for love. JK Rowling has revealed the inspiration behind the symbol for the Deathly Hallows.
Speaking in a new BBC documentary, the author says it's connected to a film that came out more than 40 years ago. The film features a Masonic symbol - and is similar to the one that appears in Harry Potter. She says she was watching the film when she found out her mother had died - and that something must have sunk in on a "subconscious level". The series finished with the book being named after the three most powerful magical objects in the Harry Potter universe.
The symbol, a triangle with a struck-through circle in it has become one of the most recognisable motifs from the franchise. In the films, the symbol has been explained as representing the three objects which make up the Hallows: the invisibility cloak, resurrection stone and the Elder Wand.
However, the inspiration for this iconic insignia came from a place far darker, and far more real, than anyone would imagine. According to author JK Rowling, the symbol is connected to a Masonic emblem in a film that appeared over 40 years ago.
She made the revelation in a BBC documentary. According to her, an eerily similar icon appears in flick The Man Who Would be King, and was used to represent the Freemasons. The Deathly Hallows symbol — a vertical line and circle enclosed by a triangle — represents three legendary Harry Potter artifacts: the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility.
The Masonic Square and Compasses symbol forms a similar triangular shape. So I feel as though I worked my way back over 20 years to that night, because the Potter series is hugely about loss, and — I've said this before — if my mother hadn't died I think the stories would be utterly different and not what they are.
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