Shipping Snape/Fawkes (was Re: Snape's Patronus)

finwitch finwitch at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 27 11:55:03 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 142161

"AyanEva":
> 
--- I can't remember any canon that
> speaks of Fawkes' behavior around Snape, but I certainly don't
> remember Fawkes acting as though he distrusts Snape. I trust that
> bird's judgment even more than Dumbledore's. 
> 
> I've been wondering where Fawkes flew off to in the end of HBP. The
> bird's been too important a character (can a bird count as a
> character?) to just disappear, never to be seen again in Book 7.

Finwitch:

I'd sorely  miss Fawkes, too... He's a phoenix. He can't be simply 
gone, because even a dead phoenix just flames up and reborns...

As of Fawkes trusting or distrusting Snape - I don't recall any 
information about him near Snape. Considering the magical quality of a 
phoenix-song... I'd trust Fawkes' judgement, too.

And indeed, where did Fawkes go? When Dumbledore told Harry about the  
qualities of a phoenix, the word faithful had the emphasis. What would 
an extremely faitful pet do when his master dies? And where WAS Fawkes 
as Harry got the letter by an owl (and doubted it was genuine, that it 
never was from Dumbledore... he'd have doubted nothing if Fawkes had 
delivered it) and all those several invitations via students later on? 
Why the big apparition business if Fawkes could have carried them? 
Where was Fawkes when the death-spell hit Dumbledore? I really missed 
Fawkes in HBP. Really there was merely a few mentions of Fawkes sitting 
on his perch and the song of grief - and then the odd white flame and a 
phoenix raising from that "ash" by Dumbledore's tomb. Maybe that was 
Fawkes - or did old Albus turn into a phoenix?

I do wish Fawkes will be back - possibly as Harry's pet as Harry still 
remains loyal to Dumbledore... if true loyalty could call Fawkes in 
CoS, maybe true loyalty can do so now as well? After Fawkes is over his 
grief, anyway. Few wizards can tame a phoenix, but whatever else it's 
said that 'few wizards' can do, it's something Harry's been capable of -
like parseltongue or summoning corporeal patronus in the face of two 
dementors, ability to solve riddles (logic) (as in the SPYDER, Hermione 
wasn't helping him there), ability to say 'Voldemort' without fear, 
ability to shake off Imperius - he even has some sort of Seeing 
abilities per his dreams, and the one time he was seriously making a 
prediction to Ron:
'you will suffer but be very happy.' I think that came true when Ron 
regained 'Scabbers'. He must have been very happy to regain a pet he 
thought had died - but also suffering because the rat was biting him!

Finwitch







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