Harrys new Patronus

[appellj]

No: HPFGUIDX 137492

Allie wrote:
  
> Ever since I read that quote, I have thought that Harry would end 
> up with Fawkes.  I really like that Patronus idea.  "And to his 
> shock, as his new silver Phoenix Patronus flew away, another Phoenix 
> just as beautiful flew toward him, this one (gold? red? what the 
> heck color was Fawkes again?) instead of silver."


appellj:

I'm wondering if it's significant that we don't actually *see* 
Fawkes at the end but just hear him? Or rather, we think it's him 
that we're hearing? What if the reason he didn't show up when DD was 
failing at the top of the tower, didn't come and swallow the alleged 
AK curse, didn't come immediately to mourn over DD's body the moment 
he "died", was because Fawkes wasn't actually there? What if DD sent 
him away in advance, and in fact DD transformed into a phoenix and 
was doing the singing to send a message to someone? 

It seems rather important to me that we don't know what happens to 
DD's body between the time Harry sees him at the bottom of the tower 
and the funeral, and in fact we don't even see his body then because 
it's wrapped up.  

So the big question I have now is whether it would even be possible 
that if he were able to transform into a phoenix at the moment of 
his death that he would take on the special magical properties of a 
phoenix and be reborn? Is there any evidence to support this 
possibility? 

Thanks for listening; sorry this is light on canon and heavy in 
speculation.

appellj