[HPforGrownups] Order of the Phoenix - possible meanings (Was: group not title)

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 54594

At 02:53 31-03-03 +0000, karywick wrote:
>I had a thought and was wondering of if the "Order of the Phoenix"
>was the name of a society or a secret group

OK - sorry for boarding the thread, but I did this little
piece a while back in another connection.

I wanted to investigate how many meanings of 'the order of
the phoenix,' I could possibly work into a short piece of
text - I managed to put it in with eight different meanings
in four paragraphs.

I would not be surprised to find, after having read the book,
that the title refers to any of a number of different orders
of the phoenix.


And now for the text:

For many week our reporter have been under cover in the
underground network of secret societies that undermine the
magical community, and it a result of this daring journalistic
feat that we can now - with exclusive rights for the Secret
Sorceror - disclose some blood-freezing secrets:

The Order of the Phoenix is a secret society. The members are all
wizards whose pet familiars are all of the taxonomical Order of
the Phoenix. They meet every second week in a certain restaurant
that sports phoenix entablatured columns in the Order of the
Phoenix where both wizards and pets eat what they wish.

In this society the Phonix owner is always the grand master, and
he receives the honorary title of 'the Phoenix. It is thus by the
Order of the Phoenix that all the members join in paying the fire
seeds that are inevitably the Order of the Phoenix.

The Phoenix tells us that the group is a formidable fighting
force and that during the last war most of the members even
received the Order of the Phoenix. The meetings in the society
are strictly regulated by the ancient rules that are set down in
the Order of the Phoenix

When the meeting has finished, the members carefully assemble in
a line and leave the place in the order of the phoenix.



Troels Forchhammer