Phoenixes

[banjoken at optonline.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 20388

> but an entirely different Phoenix. And Dumbledore sounded as if he 
> had seen Fawkes almost dying before yet I don't think he is more 
>than 150 years old? 

Phoenixes must work differently in JKR's world. I figure they must be 
reborn fairly often, because of Dumbledores reaction in CoS. Not only 
does he act as if he'd seen it before, but it seems to me that he's 
seen it probably many times. He says something to the effect of "I've 
been telling him for days he should just get on with it" (I don't 
have the book with me so I can't get the exact quote). This seems to 
indicate it's a normal thing for him, and he's used to it by that 
point.

Ken