Harry potter ravenclaw question?

Question

i would want to ask your own opinion about this question which was asked in the deathly hallows PLEASE DONT COPY LUNAS ANSWER PLEASE THIS IS YOUR OWN OPINION NO WRONG NO CORRECT ANSWER!>>>>>> which came first the phoenix or the flame?

Answer 1

Ahh I can't answer this question sorry I'm an average student and I'm from Gryffindor so I can't ever think of answering it right.

Thanks nice question star for you.

Answer 2

I say the flame.

I like Luna

Answer 3

Flame. A flame doesn't need a phoenix so it could have appeared then miraculously the phoenix appears. Bad Wizarding adaption of the chicken and the egg, I reckon.

Answer 4

Woudln't the phoenix come first...because without that theres no flame. But then you have to have a flame to have the phoenix....hmmm.

I would say...the Phoenix.

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Answer 5

Id say a cirlce has no beginning, so the ones existence necesstates the othes.

Im not sure what Luna's answer was... but this is what Id say the egg/chicken thing as well!

Answer 6

It's very much like the chicken and the egg, so I'll use similar logic to get to an answer.

Eggs are defined by what lays them, like chickens or sparrows or alligators, but chickens are not defined by what they were hatched out of.  That's why you can specify a "chicken egg" (or, a chicken'S egg, possessive) but never say an egg's chicken.  The egg belongs to the chicken, not the other way around.  The chicken came first, because if it didn't it wouldn't be the chicken's egg.

SO

Phoenix are defined as a "firebird."  Meaning that they are bird's that belong to the flame  Flames are never considered to belong to the bird.  

So which came first?  The owner, not the one that belongs to the other.  Not all flames have a Phoenix, but all Phoenix has a flame.  The flame came first.

Answer 7

If someone would ask me chicken/egg, I'd answer just like Luna, but phoenix/flame seems a bit different problem for me.

As I study physics, I know that decay is a random process. And that matter and anti matter join to create nothing. So nothing can in theory decay into matter and anti matter.

Therefore I'd choose flame as a beginning, because flame could somehow decay into a phoenix.