Fawkes' Age, "Wormtail" vs. Pettigrew PLUS Harry Did Touch Scabbers

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 54315

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erisedstraeh2002"
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:

> 
> Me again: (Phyllis)
> 
> I do think Fawkes was Gryffindor's phoenix, but I don't see him as 
> being handed down like a pet.  I agree that he chooses his master, 
> and I think he chose both Gryffindor and Dumbledore.  I also think 
> there's some sort of connection between Gryffindor and Dumbledore, 
> and that Fawkes is part of that connection.  Since both Gryffindor 
> and Dumbledore are considered great wizards, I think it's plausible 
> that both of them could have domesticated Fawkes.
> 
> 
> ~Phyllis

bboy_mn:

I agree that it is Fawkes who chooses his next master, and one could
assume that the next master he chooses is the greatest Gryffindor
currently living. We already see Fawkes developing a friendship with
Harry. So I have no doubt that before the story is over, Fawkes will
belong to Harry.

I have also speculated that the 'Heir to Gryffindor' is not a
biological heir, although that possibility isn't excluded, but the
person who Fawkes chooses as his next master. It's sort of like King
Arthur pulling the sword from the stone. It's based, not on how or to
whom you were born, but whether you have grown to be worth of being
the heir. Based on a quality of being, not a right of birth.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn