[HPforGrownups] Fawkes vs. basilisk

[Derek Hiemforth]

No: HPFGUIDX 87990

Pookie wrote:
>If everything is killed when it looks at the basilisk's eyes, why is it that 
>Fawkes survived when his beak gorged out the eyes of  the basilisk?
>Book 2, pages 318-319

Derek:
The simplest answer would be to speculate that not literally *everything*
is killed when it looks at the basilisk's eyes.  Phoenixes' relationship
to life and death are different than other creatures.  Perhaps something
about them renders them immune to the basilisk's effect.  (Or perhaps
Fawkes, being a smart bird, knows of the basilisk's power, and closes his
eyes when striking at the basilisk.)

- Derek