Why didn't Fawkes turn up??

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 143297

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scamjunk22" <brahadambal at i...> 
wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response on my previous doubt about Harry's blood.  
Here's another of my doubts....
> 
> When the duel between AD and LV was taking place, Fawkes comes 
there 
> and swallows an avada kedavra aimed at AD... without which AD would 
> not be alive... and the ministry is SO very far away from Hogwarts.
> 
> So, when the entire conversation between AD and Draco (DM) was 
taking 
> place on the castle ramparts itself (IMO, ample time for Fawkes to 
have 
> sensed danger to its master), why didn't Fawkes turn up?  It would 
> have been obvious that Fawkes would have turned up immediately, yet 
> he does not 'appear' to be there until after everyone's gone 
inside. 
> Why has this important link between AD and Fawkes been ignored, in 
HBP 
> all of a sudden??? 
> 
> be safe,
> scam.
>

Hickengruendler:

Well, it either is a plothole (which can very well be possible) or 
Dumbledore didn't want Fawkes to appear. Even if you don't believe in 
a Snape-Dumbledore conspiracy to kill Albus, it can be explained with 
the second possibility, I think. Dumbledore was in real danger while 
fighting Voldemort. He obviously did not think he was in such danger 
when talking to Malfoy, and he was of course proven right. Therefore 
Dumbledore probably thought that Fawkes wasn't needed, since he was 
sure that Draco wouldn't do it.

But that of course does not explain, why Fawkes didn't appear after 
Fenrir and the other Death Eaters made it on the tower. Undoubtly, 
Dumbledore was in danger at least then. The answer  find most logical 
is, that Dumbledore knew his time was up, and that he would die from 
the Potion anyway. Therefore there was no need for Fawkes to protect 
him, since he would die anyway. But then, I'm a firm believer in DDM!
Snape. And therefore it's probably no surprise, that I think it was 
on purpose that Fawkes didn't appear.

Hickengruendler, who thinks the mysterious absence of Fawkes on the 
tower would be a much bigger plothole, than some possible 
inconsistencies regarding the timeline in the night of the battle at 
the DoM