Fawkes



Fawkes is a phoenix owned by Albus Dumbledore. Being a phoenix, Fawkes periodically dies, bursting into flames, and is then reborn from the ashes.

Fawkes once saved the life of Harry Potter in 1993, when shedding healing tears on wounds inflicted by Slytherin's basilisk. Fawkes also saved his master, Professor Dumbledore, in 1996, when he blocked a Killing Curse intended for Dumbledore, thus giving the headmaster time to defend himself. He was promptly reborn afterwards. Fawkes was last seen towards the end of school year 1996-1997, when Dumbledore died. It is believed that he was the source of the flame which engulfed Dumbledore's body at his funeral.

Fawkes' name is supposedly derived from the name "Guy Fawkes".