“Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?”"...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.""Well reasoned.”
“Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?”
“Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.”
“We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first.”
“If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.”
“I figure that if a secret has an answer, it'll out on its own if it's meant to, and if it doesn't then maybe providence has a better reason for keeping it hidden than you think.”