0901NOTPhoenix

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According to Rowling via Pottermore.com, "Fawkes is Professor Dumbledore's phoenix, and lives in the headmaster's study...When [the reader] first meets Fawkes, he resembles a decrepit, half-plucked turkey. He makes an awful gagging sound and finally explodes into flames. A few seconds later, he emerges from his own ashes as a tiny, wrinkled baby bird...After Harry shows loyalty to Dumbledore inside the Chamber [of Secrets], Fawkes appears to assist him. He is now a crimson bird the size of a swan, with a glittering golden tail and gleaming golden talons. He sings music that seems to lift the hair on Harry's scalp and makes his heart swell to twice its size...When Harry is fatally injured by a Basilisk fang, Fawkes heals the wound with his tears."

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