Magical animals in canon/ Fawkes and Snape.

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 166282

> Hickengruendler:
> 
> But if this true, why didn't Dumbledore put Fawkes on alert the night 
> he died? After all, he went to a dangerous mission, and even if he 
> didn't expect the Death eaters to appear in Hogwarts, he surely knew 
> that the Horcrux hunt would hold some real dangers for his life *and 
> Harry's*. Therefore telling Fawkes to be ready for the worst, just in 
> case, seems not only logical, but really necessary, at the very least 
> for Harry's sake.

Jen: 'You are with me,' said Dumbledore simply.  The fact that Fawkes didn't appear in the 
cave when Dumbledore collapsed and Harry was about to be pulled under by the Inferi 
tells me Fawkes was not meant to intervene.

I don't think it's Fawkes' nature, no matter how loyal he is to Dumbledore, to intervene in 
every situation.  Perhaps Fawkes sensed it was Dumbledore's time to pass on that night, 
that the next great adventure was waiting?  Fawkes isn't going to arrive in the nick of time 
to save Dumbledore everytime he's in danger or Dumbledore wouldn't have a problem with 
the concept of immortality.  Dumbledore would want to know that when it's his time to go, 
Fawkes will allow him to leave.  Maybe that's what brought Fawkes to the MOM, he sensed 
it wasn't Dumbledore's time to go.

Jen