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Chapter 9
Harry was happy to find that the chairs in front of the fireplace were empty and plopped down to begin reading. He couldn't believe he was lucky enough to find a book about his friend's clan and it made him happy that he had asked Draco about the clan last week and, oddly enough, it made him even more happy that Draco trusted him with his mother's book.
Not only does he trust me with it, he went out of his way to get it for me, realized Harry, and he didn't even try to take points from me for not being in the dormitory when he knew I'd never make it back on time.
These new realizations didn't bother Harry though. In fact, it made him feel warm inside.
"We're finally becoming friends," stated Harry himself, a big grin on his face. But then he became thoughtful. "Better not tell Ron though."
Looking around himself, he made sure Ron hadn't heard him like Hermione had snuck up on him earlier, before turning back to the book.
It was an older book, big and elegant looking like you would expect books to look like in the Elizabethan Period. The title read was 'The Clan of the Phoenix: A Continuing Record of Facts, Dates and Tragedy' and it was by Virgil Dante Metamorphoses1.
Opening the book Harry turned to the list of chapters:
-Part One: A Brief History-
Chapter 1: Earliest Records Of The Clan
Chapter 2: Why the Clan Became Cursed
Chapter 3: The Night of the Beheading Game
Chapter 4: The Beginning of the End
-Part Two: Background Information-
Chapter 5: The Phoenix Clan's Abilities
Chapter 6: What Does a Member of the Phoenix Clan Look Like?
Chapter 7: How to Kill a Human With Phoenix Wings
Chapter 8: Life After Death
-Part Three: Records-
Chapter 9: Laws Involving the Clan
Chapter 10: Family Trees of the Survivors
-Acknowledgments-
From what Draco and Birenze had told him Harry guessed he could skip the first five chapters and move straight into chapter six.
Chapter 6: What Does a Member of the Phoenix Clan Look Like?
Silver and crimson are very common colors for a member of the Phoenix Clan. Pureblood members (those with the strongest blood ties to the Clan, not to Wizardry) more commonly have silver hair and crimson eyes or vice versa. As members of the Clan began to marry muggles after the Great Beheading of 19122 their eye color began to include other options such as blue, green and violet but their hair colors remained silver or crimson. On the other hand marrying other wizards/witches does nothing to alter their appearances like it does when they marry muggles.
Since you can't always tell a member when you look at them, the surefire way to identify them is to look at their backs. A member is born with a mark on their backs that looks like a muggle tattoo of crimson wings. 'The wings are a way to represent the phoenix in which they share a connection with,' according to Researcher Shea Simone3, 'but since they are feathered wings people more on the lines think of them as crimson angel wings instead.'
Typically the wings are small and fit only on the shoulder blades, making them easy to hide with their clothing, but that is not always the case. The stronger the member's ability the longer the wings are. The strongest member recorded had the wing tips at their elbows. Also the wings of a strong member has lots of detail and occasionally they have silver sparkles if you look at them in the right light. Lastly there are no spells strong enough to hide the wings, or make-up to hide them. (For an example of the wings look at the drawing on page 450)
Another way to determine whether or not a person is a member is to pick them up. A member have varied weight like normal people but even if a member was 1,000 pounds, as improbable as that is, the average person could lift them single handedly. Members have a magic aura around them that are with them the moment they are born that make them light enough to fly like a bird and jump extremely high without the use of other spells or brooms.
Other characteristics, such has the shape of noses, their height, etc… are the same as normal people; all shapes and sizes. So unlike popular rumor they do not have beak like noses.
Not needing, or wanting, to know about how to kill his friend, Harry skipped the next chapter and was about to read the eighth one when he thought about the Family Tree in the back. Maybe this would be a good way to find out his friend's name.
These are the family trees of those who survived the slaughter.
Those who are of the clan will have their names underlined.
For the protection of members who are still alive, they're names will be left out.
When they die, they're names will be added magically.
Their cause of death (if any) will be in parenthesis on the same line or in parenthesis next to each name if spouses die of separate causes of death.
He skipped the first couple pages of the names of those still alive after the slaughter in 1912 and went straight to the last page.
Son married Aurora Vida4 (Death Eaters).
Daughter Alexis5 married Wyatt Claiborne6 (Death Eaters).
Son Axel7 was one years old when he died (Death Eaters).
Seeing that there were no more names, Harry wondered if his friend was Axel.