[HPforGrownups] Phoenix bird and Dumbledore

[Kendra Grant-Bingham]

No: HPFGUIDX 36789

Eloise writes:
~~~~~In fact, according to myth, well, western myth at least ( I know they 
occur in Chinese/Japanese myth too) there is only one. Not just special, * 
unique*. This is not to deny that we may learn more of his special powers.~~~~~

Kendra writes:
The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death. 
In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, it is associated with the sun god. 
According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every 
morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to the bird 
sing a beautiful song while it bathed in the well.
Only one phoenix exists at a time. When the bird felt its death was near, 
every 500 to 1,461 years, it would build a nest of aromatic wood and set it 
on fire. The bird then was consumed by the flames. A new phoenix sprang 
forth from the pyre. It embalmed the ashes of its predecessor in an egg of 
myrrh and flew with it to Heliopolis, "city of the sun," where the egg was 
deposited on the altar of the sun god.
In Egypt, it was usually depicted as a heron, but in the classic literature 
as a peacock or an eagle.



Eloise writes:

~~~~~It has been speculated before that he is an animagus. I should say it 
was highly likely. But there is no need for him to be unregistered: 
Hermione only checked the animagi registered that century, Dumbledore is 
about 150, isn't he, so he could have been registered in the previous 
century.~~~~~

Kendra writes:
I would think that, no matter HOW old he is, or even if he was registered 
in the previous century, as long as he is alive, his registration would 
still be valid in THIS century.


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Kendra Grant-Bingham
~~~~~Phoenix Moonshadow Wych~~~~~
"Gryffindor House ...where Friendship and Bravery count."



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