June 20, 2003

• The Order of the Phoenix

  
  

  Some links of interest
  on this day of Potter-mania:

  
  

  The Royal Order of the Phoenix

  
  

  

  
  

  Knight’s Gold Cross
   With Swords

  
  

  awarded to
  Arthur Edmonds,
  Royal New Zealand Engineers,
  attached to Special Operations Executive and parachuted into occupied Greece
  1 October 1941,
  serving with Greek guerrillas.
  
  

  
  

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  St. James Church Cemetery,
  Kerikeri, New Zealand

  
  

  

  
  

  In Loving Memory of
   Arthur Edmonds
  who died June 20th,
  1914, aged 88 years:

  
  

  Logos

  
  

  
   Logo,
  Anglican Diocese
  of Auckland
  
  
  Logo,
  Catholic Diocese
  of Phoenix

  
  

  See also Cullinane College.

  
  
  

  “The dark lord re-emerges, but thinking he can now kill Harry, discovers that Harry is still protected, since both his wand and Harry’s wand have as their essence two feathers from the same phoenix, a phoenix that has only given two feathers, and they cannot be used against one another.”

  
  

  — Harry Potter:
  Social Activist for the 21st Century

  
  

  “The question is — why does the same story keep getting told? The answer is that we’re still trying to figure it out.”

  
  

  — Me and Frodo Down by the Schoolyard
  
  

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