Order of the Phoenix

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No: HPFGUIDX 22689

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Glenda and Danny Millgate" 
<millgate at a...> wrote:
> Still getting used to these various lists, so I hope that this 
question is not either old or inappropriate to this list.
> 
> My 7 year old daughter Katie has this great theory about Dumbledore 
and the next book that just blew me away (out of the mouths of 
babes!) and I wanted to know what you guys think.
> 
> She noted that in CoS it is revealed that Dumbledore used to be the 
Transfiguration teacher (when Tom Riddle was at Hogwarts). Professor 
MacGonagall, the current Transfiguration teacher, is an Animagus, a 
cat...and she uses this skill as part of the Transfiguration lessons. 
Based on this, Katie decided that Dumbledore must also be an Animagus 
(how else could he teach that class?). Her theory is that 
Dumbledore's Animagus is a phoenix, and that this is in someway 
related to the title of the next book...she said that maybe 
Dumbledore is the head of the Order of the Phoenix because of this 
ability (she actually said he was 'the boss of the club', after I 
explained what an order was...but I got the idea).
> 
> Thoughts...anyone?
> 
> Glenda
> millgate at a...
> 

You daughter must be brilliant.  When I was 7, I think I was reading 
the Mr. Men series... And now, as a 23yr old I have graduated to 
Harry Potter. Well, here is my take on "the order of the Phoenix".  I 
assume sombody has already mentioned this, but all I have found is 
theories about Dumbledore and "animagi". I figured "the order of the 
Phoenix", relates to the feathers within both Harry and Voldemort's 
wand.  Dumbledore, doubtlessly is a member of this "order" as he owns 
the same Phoenix that powered V & H's wand. Perhaps the mythical 
creature that powers the wand, which in turn "chooses its wizard or 
witch", bears some significance; a significance that parallels the 
personality determinancy of the Houses (griff-Raven-Huff-good /Slyth-
evil).  That the Phoenix binds Potter, Dumbledore, Voldemore seems to 
imply that Power and Greatness follows from belonging to 
the "order".  Voldemore has never attacked Dumbledore, might we 
assume that both wield Phoenix wands; their wands would be "brothers" 
and therefore, "would not work properly against one another"?

 

I doubt that animagi has anything to do with the character of 
dumbledore.