[HPforGrownups] Re: The Song of the Phoenix

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 41618


blue and bronze wrote:
> > I don't think you're too far off at all!  I think that the Priori
> > Incantatem effect could've "called" Fawkes to the graveyard, and
> > since Phoenixes can disappear and reappear at will, I think that is
> > very possible that he was there.  Also, because Harry, Voldemort and
> > the Death Eaters were a bit preoccupied (to say the least) at the
> > time, Fawkes could've easily hidden from them.

So, maybe I'm not out in left field!  I really like to think that Fawkes was
summoned, that way Harry wasn't alone.  In the case of brother wands, surely
there are not many occasions when the wands would be forced to do battle.
And more than likely one of the wands belongs to a "good guy" and the other
to a "bad guy."  And if Fawkes was summoned by the Priori Incantatem effect,
it would be his "job" to sing, with the power of the song of the Phoenix
described as:

"Phoenix song is magical.  It is reputed to increase the courage of the pure
of heart and to strike fear into the hearts of the impure."

That quote comes from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Then Aloha Moira writes:

> Personally, I thought that it had to do with the wand cores that
> Voldemort and Harry share, since both of them have tail-feathers from
> Fawkes. I assumed that it was just an odd side-effect of the Priori
> Incantatem that it would create phoenix song... if Fawkes was there,
> though, what did he do? What was his purpose? JKR didn't mention Harry

Well, there is the courage to the pure of heart part (as quoted above).  I
think we will learn a lot more about the Phoenix in book 5, *if* it ever
arrives!

Richelle