Where's Aberforth? And what about Fawkes?

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 69145

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Gaurav Vaidya" <u0203932 at n...> 
wrote:
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> Aberforth was around in the first Order of the Phoenix (he's in
> Moody's picture), so where is he now?
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Aberforth was mentioned by Dumbledore, in GoF, as having had an 
article written about him in the Prophet, saying he'd been practicing 
inappropriate charms on a goat(Rita Skeeter's Scoop). I wonder if the 
writer of that article might have been Rita Skeeter? Further, unless 
we assume Aberforth has missed out in the genetic hand dealt to them 
by their parents, can we say that Aberforth has covered up his 
Dumbledore-like qualities for some reason? 

> 
> What's the deal with Fawkes? 
..snip..we can guess he
> "belongs" to Dumbledore. ..snip.. Since he
> gave the feather which went into Riddle's wand, Fawkes is also one 
of
> only two people who we *know* predates Voldemort - the only other
> person being his Transfiguration teacher, Albus Dumbledore. 
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> cheers,
> Gaurav (who things Fawkes is So Cute!)

I'm presuming the feathers which went into Voldy's and Harry's wand 
would be the long tail feathers Harry et al cling to to escape the 
Chamber, as in OotP, Fawkes appears to be shedding so much he may go 
bald! He leaves a feather as a message several times.
I wondered if, in amongst his work with Nicolas Flamel, defeating 
Grindelwald, and the discovery of the 12 uses of dragon's blood,
(Chocolate Frog Cards) Dumbledore also found time to liberate Fawkes 
from something? Or if the cycle that Harry's in at the moment is a 
repeat of Dumbledore's with Grindelwald? So Harry will, on defeat of 
Voldemort (and Dumbledore's death), inherit Fawkes' loyalty?
Also, Hagrid, too, predates Voldemort..
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria