Magical animals in canon/ Fawkes and Snape.

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 166295

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

Jen: Aha! You are the culprit! 

> 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?

Jen:  Odd that, how Snape is never in Dumbledore's office when Harry arrives.  And trying 
so *hard* to keep Harry from entering the office that day in GOF?  Think how LONG we've 
creased our brows over that one, searching for a motive, only to find out Snape is 
desperate to keep Harry from discovering...Fawkes is *missing*.  Snape knows Potter and 
his gang of meddling friends will plan a rescue and he will be under suspicion for loitering 
outside Dumbledore's office, once again in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

"POTTER!"

Yes, one mystery finally solved.

Ceridwen:
> 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:  Hmm, I'm thinking the transformations can only happen on burning day, that's why 
Snape has all the dark imagery around him:  the black clothes, black mood, black sneer.  
Living in a dungeon to symbolize the ashes.  Yes, yes, it's all coming together Ceridwen, 
thank you. ;-)

Jen, still laughing at Magpie's clever post and apologizing if her post has line breaks, sigh.