Fawkes and the Order

[Risti]

No: HPFGUIDX 74178

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Just a detail. The Order is called the Order of the Phoenix, not 
the 
> Order of DD, or DD's Army. Does that mean that Fawkes is somehow 
the 
> big chief of the Order and DD would only be some kind of 
assistant ? 
> Just wondering...
> 
> Del

This is actually something I've given alot of thought to both pre-
OotP and post-OotP.  Pre-OotP, I was convinced that the significance 
of the Pheonix in the name lies in one of it's traits:loyalty.  
Pheonix's are very loyal birds, or so we're told in CoS. 
(Incidently, that leads me to one of my other favorite topics, how 
Voldemort deals with a wand core that is loyal to Dumbledore).  Look 
in CoS the way Fawkes came to help Harry, because he was loyal to 
Dumbledore.  Originally, my OotP prediction was that the Order was 
going to be something similiar to what DA ended up being(only with 
Dumbledore being kicked out first, and the group formed in loyalty 
after) and that Harry was going to name it, remembering back to 
CoS.  However, since that didn't happen, I'm still working on 
reconciling the theory of loyalty to the naming of the group.

~Risti