LV's survival (was GH again)

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 112095

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...> wrote:
> ---Carolyn:
> 
>   I hope no one still imagines that it is a coincidence that that 
> wand was waiting at Ollivanders, and that Harry chose it.
> 
> Angie agrees:
> 
> > And let's forget where the phoenix feather came from:  DD's 
> pheonix, Fawkes.  I know that Mr. Olivander said the pheonix only 
> gave two feathers, but he's also made referece to plucking other 
> animals, like unicorns.  I don't see why he couldn't pluck another 
> feather from Fawkes at any time and make another wand.

imamommy:

I would like to say that I agree with the theory that TR's mother may
have left the same protection with him that HP's mother did.  I have
thought about this a lot, actually.  I wonder if this is something
that Tom never knew about though?

As for the feathers, no, I don't think it was "coincidence"; but I
also don't think it was DD (or Ollivander, for that matter)
manipulating things.  I have long felt, in the absence of any defined
deity in Potterverse, that there is some entity that is "good" and one
that is "bad", and that *something or someone* higher than mortals is
providing Harry with some of the tools to defeat this great evil.  The
wand is one of those tools.

As to Olly plucking Fawkes' tail any time he got the urge, I think the
phrasing of "he gave another feather-just one other" (forgive any
paraphrasing) indicates that at least with Fawkes the phoenix this was
a voluntary procedure.  

imamommy