Alectryomancy

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 55079

Scott wrote:
 
> When harry buys unfogging the future the manager mentions several 
of 
> its chapters including methods of divination and...bird entrails!
> 
> This just struck me as interesting because we know that the phoenix 
> is obviously important to the plot (or at least enough so to have 
> and order of something), and perhaps, just perhaps, fawkes could 
> having something to do with all this and be useful in divination.( 
> or any other phoenix)  The process of alectryomancy is usually done 
> with a cock, but who knows the possibilities with a phoenix. 
> 
> I'm not saying that fawkes's entrails are what "order of the 
> phoenix" refers to (though that's certainly an interesting 
thought), 
> but it does seem likely that some connection could be made...
> 
> perhaps having to do with the first true prediction? hmmm...

Well, a dying phoenix would burn itself and reborn - where'd you 
*get* the phoenix entrails? But using a cocks entrails... Did 
Trelawney do that when possessed!Ginny killed all those cocks? And 
well, maybe Fawkes can do predictions from his own entrails?

What about frog-entrails? Like that Neville managed to predict 
something ghastly when Snape told him to disembowl frogs?

And there definately is *something* to Neville...

A cock's song kills a basilisk - phoenix song encourages the pure-
hearted and terrifies the evil ones... Maybe there is a connection? 
Magical song?


-- Finwitch
"Ah, music- magic beyond all that we teach here"