Neville's Wand (Was: OWLs & future Aurors)

[flying_meese]

No: HPFGUIDX 74465

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
SNIP
 
> Back on the subject of feathers. If Fawkes uses a feather every 
time
> he sends a message to someone, then there must be tons of these
> feathers laying around. True we only see two or three messages 
sent in
> OoP, but Dumbledore must have used Fawkes for the same purpose on
> other occassion that we haven't seen. He seems to do so, ask 
Fawkes to
> be a messenger, very casually as if it's not a big deal. So 
Dumbledore
> could have collected a dozen feather by now.
> 
> There was some speculation a while back that the Order of the 
Phoenix
> would be a group of people who all had Fawkes feather wands. These
> would be specially made for the Order to help them combat 
Voldemort.
> Looks even more like that could be possible now that we know there 
are
> a few feathers lying around.
> 
> More on feathers-
> There has to be a limit to how many feathers this bird can give 
up. I
> would think that just to be able to fly, it would need to retain 
some
> of it's tail feathers, and exactly how many tail feathers would a 
bird
> like this have? 
> 
> That may not be that big a problem because Fawkes has just gone
> through another lifecycle regeneration, forced by eating a Death 
Curse
> in order to protect Dumbledore (in the MoM Atrium battle). Since he
> has just regenerated, he probably has a whole new set of tail 
feathers.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> bboy_mn

There could also be the possibility that not just any feather from a 
Phoenix will work in a wand and that Fawkes has only produced 2 of 
these special feathers.