[HPforGrownups] Re: Fawkes' Age, "Wormtail" vs. Pettigrew PLUS Harry Did Touch Scabbers

[Jennifer Angliss]

No: HPFGUIDX 54319

Quoting erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002 at yahoo.com>:

> First I wrote:
> 
> > Just because JKR has implied that she named Fawkes the phoenix
> > after Guy Fawkes doesn't mean that Fawkes the phoenix has to have
> > been born (for the first time) after the death of the real Guy
> > Fawkes.
> 
> then Patricia Bullington-McGuire responded:
> 
> > Exactly.  It only means he was given the name "Fawkes" after the
> > gunpowder plot took place.
> 
> Now me again:
> 
> Oh, dear, I'm not making myself clear.  The point I'm trying
> (unsuccessfully!) to make is that JKR's choosing of the name "Fawkes"
> doesn't need to fit into the chronology of actual historical events.
> I think Fawkes has always been named Fawkes, ever since he was
> originally born, and that JKR chose his name because it symbolized
> the rebirth of the phoenix from fire.

Oh, it's perfectly clear to me! It's similar to Professor Sprout teaching 
herbology and Professor Lupin being a werewolf. It's not as if Sprout changed 
her name when she got interested in Herbology or Lupin changed his when he was 
bitten. From the characters' POV it is coincidence, but from ours it is a clue.

Jennifer