Fawkes the Horcrux

[johnbowman19]

No: HPFGUIDX 137751

After rereading HBP a number of times, I decided to give more thought
to the idea that DD intended Snape to kill him. So the natural
question is if DD was planning his own death why would he let Snape do
it? Why would he allow himself to die? The major theory so far is that
DD meant his death as a way to ensure Snape's status within the Death
Eaters, and to force Harry to become more of a Man. I have a different
theory to put forth: DD allowed himself to die because he is not truly
dead. How can he not be truly dead you ask? I would argue that DD had
made a Horcrux.

While reading HBP I was struck with how much magical knowledge DD has
accumulated throughout his life. Not only does he know about ancient
magic, and all good magic (for lack of a better term), he also knows a
lot about dark magic. DD knew about Horcruxes before he heard
Slughorn's memory, in fact in the memory, he had ban the subject of
Horcruxes from Hogwarts. So I asked myself how would DD know about
Horcruxes? I think the reason why he knows about Horcruxes is because
he made one. We know of one possible killing that DD did, and that was
his defeat of Grindelwald. He defeated Grindelwald at the age of 105
(according to the lexicon) and certainly 105 years is enough time to
learn about horcruxes before he beat Grindelwald. So when I decided
that DD made a Horcrux to put a stopper in dead as it were, he would
allow himself to be killed my Snape. This leads to question what would
be his Horcrux? Fawkes.

Fawkes is extremely loyal to DD and is well controlled by DD just as
Nagini is well controlled by Voldemort. Fawkes would be the perfect
Horcrux because he could not be destroyed (save his natural death).
Even Avada Kedavra could not kill Fawkes (he swallowed Voldemort's in
the battle at the Ministry). Fawkes is also powerfully magical in that
he can teleport (with passengers), lift heavy loads, his tears have
healing qualities, and he his song has magical properties. What better
horcrux could there be? It is risky putting a part of your soul in
another living being, but it would not be very risky for DD and Fawkes
because of the tremendous loyalty between the two. 

Finally I really do not want DD to be dead, so I know I am looking for
ways out, but the death of DD reminded me of the Death of another
great wizard: Gandalf. Gandalf seemingly died but came back to life,
just as I hope DD will. Also one of DD middle names is Percival who
just happens to be the knight from the tale of King Arthur who gained
the Holy Grail (immortal life, or as close to immortality in the
wizard world as one can get). 

John, who also points out that Fawkes and Horcux kinda rhyme.