Fawkes and the basilisk

[Potterfanme]

No: HPFGUIDX 81263

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tuck668" <tuck668 at y...> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > More likely, I suspect, phoenixes don't die easily. That makes
> > sense, given their other powers. Fawkes could be immune to
> > petrification, and most other lethal magics. If he is killed then
> > setting the corpse on fire may well bring him back to life.
> > 
> > --
> > Robert


 
> Can a phoenix die?
> 
> -Anna


Susan:

I wondered if the phoenix being a bird was like a rooster whose sound 
is fatal to a basilisk?  I say *like* because Fawkes was singing the 
moment he entered the chamber and that is not what killed the 
basilisk.  I think maybe it mesmerized him?