Fawkes = Traitor?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 58281

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Becky Walkden 
<runningbecky2002 at y...> wrote:
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> Valky:
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>> Not really sure about what Fawkes leaning is in good or evil.

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Huggs Becky:
> One other thing, I have a sneaky suspicion that cannot be confirmed 
that Phoenix's are noble good creatures so I bet he is indeed oriented 
on a good/evil basis.  In other words the great loyalty that Phoenix's 
display I think would only be given to those who are worthy of that 
loyalty.  There is no cannon on this of course.
> 

Annemehr:

Actually, there is *some* canon that Becky is on the right track, IMO.

>From FBAWTFT:

"...The phoenix is a gentle creature that has never been known to kill 
and eats only herbs.  Like the Diricawl (see page 9), it can disappear 
and reappear at will. Phoenix song is magical; it is reputed to 
increase the courage of the pure of heart and to strike fear into the 
hearts of the impure.  Phoenix tears have powerful healing 
properties."

The "gentle creature" and "phoenix song" items both, as I see it, 
point to the nobility of phoenixes.  (By the way, it looks like it 
should be "phoenices," but no one ever writes it that way -- does 
anybody know?)

Interesting point about vanishing like the Diricawl (which FB says can 
vanish in a puff of feathers and reappear somewhere else, and which 
muggles used to know as the "Dodo").  I suppose that's how Fawkes got 
into the Chamber of Secrets so quickly.

And of course, Fawkes' song has had exactly the stated effects on 
Harry (more than once) and Voldemort.

Annemehr
"I'm /not/ going to be murdered," Harry said out loud.
"That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.