Malice and Ulterior Motives

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 138827

 
> Alla:
> 
> Actually, I think we do NOT know that. During the whole HBP we saw 
> how powerful Snape was since he was in school. I think that it is a 
> possibility that if Snape attacked AT LEAST De who surrounded DD, 
it 
> may have bought Albus a chance to do something - at least summon 
> Fawkes for help.

Hickengruendler:

You are right. Since Dumbledore managed to fight twelve Death Eaters, 
I guess it is possible that Snape, who seems to be pretty powerful as 
well, could manage to fight three or four of them at least for a 
short time. However, the question is, would he be able to do so, or 
would he drop dead the very first second he defended Dumbledore?

But about summoning Fawkes: Does he need to be summoned? As far as I 
recall he appeared in CoS and OotP out of loyalty for Dumbledore and 
for Harry (because Harry showed loyalty for DD as well in the 
chamber). Neither Harry nor Dumbledore said anything to call him. And 
supposing Fawkes needs to be summoned, lets say by some inner 
thoughts, if Dumbledore was able to summon him while in battle with 
Voldemort at the end of book 5, than he surely had enough time to do 
so in HBP as well, before Snape appeared on the tower. After all, he 
had a conversation with Fenrir after he appeared on the tower. Surely 
he could have used some of this time to summon the Phoenix. IMO, as 
it currently seems (further explanations in book 7 are of course 
always possible), this is either a flint by JKR not to have Fawkes 
there, or Dumbledore did not want to have him there, because he did 
not want Fawkes' help at this point, for whichever reason.

Alla:

 I mean, Snape is the one , IMO< who got himself into the taking vow 
> and it would have been nice if he took a responsibility for that.
 
Hickengruendler:

Oh yes, I agree. Even if it turned out that he acted on Dumbledore's 
order, he is partly to blame because he took the Vow. That's one 
reason, why I think he will die in book 7, as sort of poetic justice.