Magical animals in canon/ Fawkes and Snape.

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 166288

Hickengruendler:
> *(snip)* 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.

Ceridwen:
Okay, a very impossible suggestion, akin to my Dumbledore is 
Voldemort (hence the reason people mix them up ;) ):

Snape is Fawkes.

Yes, as an Animagus.  Have you ever seen them together?  Okay, in the 
Potterverse, with time-turners and Polyjuice, maybe you could see 
them together and they could still be the same individual.  But, have 
you ever seen Snape and Fawkes together?

Then, there are the eyes.  Snape's eyes are like black tunnels - the 
first impression I got when I read this was a shark's eyes:  flat 
black, reflective, cold, emotionless.  Fawkes has black eyes like 
many birds.  We see them reflecting the sunset in Dumbledore's office 
in HBP.  Back when we were talking about horney toads, I of course 
thought of my dear old horney toad that I had when I was a kid.  Its 
eyes were like a bird's eyes, ringed by something scaley-looking, 
opaque, reflective; like a shark's eyes, really, round and... well, 
like tunnels.  I am using the term 'flat black' to mean something 
more like black paint on a car which does not have sparkleys in it, 
not like matte paint.

One of the interesting images HBP gave us was of Snape chanting, 
singing, over Draco Malfoy.  This was a healing spell, or a counter-
spell to the Sectum Sempra spell.  Either way, Draco was healed of 
his life-threatening injuries.  In HBP, Snape also treated Katey Bell 
for magical injuries sustained from the cursed opal necklace, and he 
treated Dumbledore's injured hand received from the ring Horcrux or 
its protections.  Snape as a healer: Fawkes as a healer.  Phoenix 
song and phoenix tears are healing agents.

Jen:
> ...why couldn't Fawkes heal the ring curse injury?
Because it's dark magic or was too big or...?

Ceridwen:
Good question, and part of the reason I'm playing with Fawkes!Snape 
(or Snape!Fawkes if you prefer).  Why couldn't Fawkes heal DD?  Or, 
did he, but in human form?  Was it more beneficial to say that Snape 
had done the healing than that Fawkes had done it?  Remember, this is 
just for fun, and not meant to be taken too seriously.

And, if this was the reason DD trusts Snape but won't explain to 
anyone, it's understandable.  This is the perfect cover, the one 
cover no one in the Order would question.  If Fawkes came with a 
message or with assistance, to an Order member or to the trio, who 
would doubt him?  Snape can be as wanted as he could be, but Fawkes 
will always be accepted by the Order and by Harry.  After the tower, 
if they knew that one was the other, then neither would be accepted.

I would really hate for anything about Fawkes to be a plot hole.  He 
shows up so rarely, and what he does is so important to the story - 
delivering the Sorting Hat and Gryffindor's sword, healing Harry, 
shielding DD from an AK - that to have JKR suddenly just forget to 
put him in the story at a crucial point like this just doesn't make 
any sort of sense, and I think I would be really sad if that's all 
his absence meant on the tower - that JKR found it more convenient to 
forget him, she just pretended he didn't play such memorable roles in 
other books.

So, I have my cute little Snape/Fawkes idea here.  There are plenty 
of holes in it.  The primary purpose it serves for me is to make 
Fawkes more than just a forgotten plot device when it was convenient 
not to have him around.  Because if Snape was Fawkes, and Snape was 
on the tower, then Fawkes could not have been, lacking Polyjuice (who 
would be Polyjuiced to play the role?) or a time turner (as far as we 
know, they were all, or at least the ones at the MoM were, destroyed).

The only other possibility given a Stealth!Fawkes would be Dumbledore 
as Fawkes, and JKR has already assured us that Dumbledore is indeed 
dead.

Ceridwen, who passed her math test and is now having fun.