HELP!! Dumbledore & Fawkes healing power QUESTION

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 168133

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, paul pagano <bionicpags at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I have been reading aloud HBP to my partner on our
> long drives to & from New York City and upstate NY!  
> He loved OOTP and is thrilled that I won't have to
> fill in the blanks for him after we see the movie this
> summer! 
> 
> Here's a question that he had that I drew a blank and
> could not answer him - If Fawkes and phoenixes have
> special healing powers, why didn't DD use Fawkes to
> heal his severely wounded hand??
> 
> Help?!?! Is there something I missed in HBP?  We are
> only halfway thru the book and even tho I have read it,
> I have stalled his qiuestion with - YOU HAVE TO WAIT
> AND SEE.... but honestly I do not have an answer.
> 
> Please help! ANYONE??
> 
> Paul

Leah:

I think the hand is beyond even Fawkes' healing powers.  I think it 
is dead.  It is described as 'blackened and shrivelled', which 
sounds to me like something which has been consumed in flames.  
There is some speculation that Snape was able to stopper death, to 
prevent this necrosis from spreading to the rest of DD's body.

Leah