[HPforGrownups] Fawkes possible absence (was: Magical animals in canon/ Fawkes and Snape)

[Peggy Kern]

No: HPFGUIDX 166293

Dana:
I am not saying I am right, it is just a thought because to me it
takes an awful long time for Fawkes to start singing after DD died. I
am just wondering if this is because Fawkes was not actually there
and because he was doing something DD would consider more important
and he would not have summoned him.
>> Hickengruendler:

Peggy:  I woke up thinking about Fawkes one day a few months ago.  I don't 
know why or how the thought got into my head, but I started wondering if 
there was some kind of tie-in with Fawkes and Snape, whether they were one 
and the same, in a transfigured form or something.  As I say, I woke up with 
this idea in my head one morning, and don't know how it got there;  but I've 
been watching it and rolling it around ever since.  I've never seen Fawkes 
and Snape at the same place at the same time, and after waking up with that 
thought, I just can't help wondering if there's some kind of connection or 
something we don't know about or don't understand.  There, I said it!  It 
was such a bizarre idea that I didn't even want to mention it, especially 
since I just woke up with it in my head one morning, and am not sure what I 
think of it myself.  But it might be fun to play with as we wait for book 7. 
Is there a relationship between Fawkes and Snape?  Are they one and the 
same, or is there something else we don't know about?

Peggy <feeling like an idiot presenting an idea she woke up with, but 
figuring it couldn't hurt to stir up the discussion pot a bit>