Phoenix Parallels (was Some interesting notes on the legend of the Phoenix)

Sat Nov 9 02:59:02 UTC 2002

No: HPFGUIDX 46353

These Phoenix notes made me think....and I sincerely apologize if this
observation has been floated/discussed/dissected before, I haven't been
keeping up with the main list as much as I used to.

Does anyone think there's anything to a parallel between the rising of the
Phoenix (a la Fawkes) and Voldemort's reanimation? Both are rising from the
dead---rising as a new version of themselves. I think Voldemort is probably
the antithesis of the phoenix, but the parallel is there. And a phoenix
feather in his wand, too. Phoenix song part of what kept him off-balance in
the graveyard when the wands dueled. A phoenix what helped defeat him in the
Chamber (okay, a memory of him, but still).

There's got to be something in this. Comments, thoughts, crushing rejoinders
that this has been done to death already, all welcome.

~Amanda