JKR's Misleading the reader and DD

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 152216

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, puduhepa98 at ... wrote:
>
  With this in mind I recall JKH in an interview  proposed DD's 
> family as a fruitful line of inquiry.  What family?  (Snip)> 
On the other hand, he has connections to phoenixes, which are 
eternal creatures repeatedly dying and being reborn. I am not 
exactly proposing  that DD is a phoenix (although that is possible), 
but what if he is also eternal in some way?  He could be Griffendor 
himself (GG) or even Merlin. I was  struck by the scene in the 
Mirror of Eresed where he says to Harry that if he  were to 
> look into the mirror he would see himself holding a pair of 
socks.   He covers up  by saying something like you can't have too 
many socks, but a gift  of clothes (specifically socks in Dobby's 
case) is a sign of freedom.  What  if DD is caught in an unending 
cycle of reincarnation, he is tired of it  and wishes someone would 
set him free? 

Tonks:
My gosh
 you may be on to something here.  In addition to everything 
else I think that DD symbolizes(Christ figure), I have often 
suggested that DD may be a Phoenix. I forgot the post number. 
Basically he has all of those names, and his arm was black.. burnt 
looking, perhaps approaching his burning time,etc.

DD tells LV "There are worse things than death".  Makes you think 
again about that phrase doesn't it?

And the socks clue was there before the next book in which someone 
*is* freed by a sock. 

And what about Aberforth?  How old can he be?  Do phoenixes have any 
connection to goats? Any folklore that anyone knows about?? Or any 
folklore about humans and Phoenixes that might fit here?  

Tonks_op