Quick question re: phoenix life cycles

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 82132

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Yahtzee63 at a... wrote:
> Traditionally, I know, the phoenix is supposed to live for 100 years
before dying in flames and being reborn. ... To me, it seems as though
Dumbledore has seen Fawkes go through a few cycles, and ..., that
would seem to suggest that Fawkes dies/is reborn far more frequently.
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> 
> Yahtzee

bboy_mn:

Depending on where you get your mythology from, the 100 year life
cycle is debatable, but at the sametime, I will admit it is a number
that is commonly used.

If you think about it, we have already seen Fawkes, not go through two
full lifecyles, but go through two rebirths. In CoS we see Fawkes
regenerate in his normal lifecyle, but in the latest book, we see him
regenerate when he is 'killed' when he blocks Voldemort's killing
curse in the atrium at the Ministry of Magic.

So, the implication is that a Phoenix can die of natural or un-natural
causes, but either way he will be reborn from the ashes.

If Cos was the end of Fawkes's normal lifecycle and we accept the 100
year standard lifecycle, that means his previous regeneration occurred
when Dumbledore was about 50 years old. Also, we do not know that
Dumbledore has not seen other Phoenix regenerate; that is certainly a
possibility.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn