Dark Shadows/Harry Potter/Dumbledore/Phoenix

[jastrangfeld]

No: HPFGUIDX 46444

Ok.  I did a search, and came up with no more than 5 messages 
with "dark shadows"  However, careful reading of those 5 messages 
made it clear that it is not the beloved cult soap opera 
classic . . . DARK SHADOWS.  

So, I would say this connection has not been made before.  I think a 
brief history needs to be made before I make my point (for those who 
are *new* to Dark Shadows anyway . . . 

The show ran from First Telecast: June 27, 1966 to Last Telecast: 
April 2, 1971, and JKR was born Born: July 31, 1965.  So this means 
she was not brought up watching this show, but it became such a cult 
classic, I'm almost sure she would have seen some of the reruns, or 
perhaps even watched the start up of it again in 1991, with new 
actors.  At any rate, this show has been broadcast and rebroadcast so 
incredibly many times that I would think she may have heard of it or 
even seen it, which brings me to my connection point here . . . 


If you're familiar with the show, then you may know the character 
Laura.  She's the mother of David, and she's a Phoenix.  Rises from 
the dead, but most certainly human in form, flames and all.

What's the possibilities that Dumbledore is a Phoenix himself?  After 
all, he's 150 years old now, but he did work with Nicholas 
Flammel . . . and that work had to have been done *before* Dumbledore 
was born, or the years would not match.  

Granted I don't know everything about the storyline of Dark 
Shadows.   I know it crosses time and that there's something to Laura 
trying to bring her son David into the fire to burn, and that she 
supposedly *dies* when he does not join her.  I don't know enough of 
the rest of the storyline to draw out more comparisons.  

And at the same time, I know we have Fawkes, and he's already been 
*reborn*.  But is it possible that Dumbledore is also a *Phoenix*?

Julie -  who is possibly just way reaching out there.