Magical animals in canon/ Fawkes and Snape.

[hickengruendler]

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> 
> 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.

Hickengruendler:

Hmm, I'm not sure. After all, Dumbledore recovered (for a short time, 
before he got weaker again) pretty fast, and I don't know what Fawkes 
could have done against the Infery. As far as I remember his two 
biggest helps were healing Harry's wounds in CoS (and then later in 
GoF, but here the wound wasn't deadly) and deflecting the Avada 
Kedavra spell in the DoM. And I'm not sure how much either of these 
abilities (healing wounds and getting reborn after being hit by an 
AK) would actually have helped during the scene with the Inferi. It 
would have helped, though, on the tower. And Dumbledore did have a 
lot of time to summon Fawkes during his conversation with Draco (and 
even during the one with Greyback), at least more so than while being 
involved in a battle with Voldie.
  
Jen: 

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.
 
Hickengruendler:

Yes, I agree with this. But of course I'm biased since this would be 
a strong hint towards DDM! Snape. If Fawkes knew it was Fumble's time 
to go, then chances are pretty high old Albus himself knew as well. I 
do wonder if there might be another explanations for Fawkes' absence 
(other than plothole and Fawkes being busy elsewhere, as Dana 
suggested). The first one wpuld be disappointing (though certainly 
possible), and I would have liked the second one much better, if we 
had seen Dumbledore giving the phoenix some instructions, instead of 
simply leaving the office and Fawkes remaining there.