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

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 166308


What if Dumbledore died months before of old age etc. His shoes are
(literary) filled by somebody under Polyjuice, or even possibly Tonks
(metamorphmagus)
I'm thinking of that story (I don't know if it's true or not) of General
'Monty' Montgomery having a double who is purposely paraded around as to
decieve the Nazis so the 'real' Monty can plan an attack where and when
Hitler least suspects it.

I still think DD is a great chess-player, who has planned a lot of things
Harry isn't aware of. When confronted with his own death, I don't think DD
would let his own impending death keep him from fighting Voldemort. I
think he would *use* his own death to his advantage.

So DD dies peacefully, surrounded by his nearest co-conspirators (Snape,
perhaps McGonegal) and his body is placed under a stasis-spell (hence his
body looks so peaceful and undisturbed when 'found under the tower' after
supposedly falling hundreds of feet.
Knowing that Voldemort is obsessed this year with letting Draco fail in
his attempt to assasinate him, and when it turns out that he has died
already Voldemort might very well kick into gear and do something more
drastic, DD has planned the whole set-up in advance.

When he dies, somebody else takes his place. Let's say, Aberforce under
Polyjuice. Abe knows his brother well enough to mimick him. Besides, DD is
'ill' and often absent because of his 'withered hand'...
The whole 'going to fetch the horcrux in the secret cave and feeding DD
poison' is *such* a set up.
That locket is planted there by DD himself, aided by his longtime
right-hand man Snape (who provided the eerily green goo)
(and isn't it a *coincidence* that Snape just *happened* to cover Inferi
in his lessons? Set up! I smell a set up!!)
So 'Dumbledore' and Harry go and retrieve the locket. The boy *must* be
set on the trail of the horcruces after all, and he is loitering enough as
it is. 'Dumbledore' and his co-conspiritors (the 'real' Order of the
Phoenix, as it were) know that Draco will try his bit soon and that the
DE's will be at the gates before the schoolyear is out. Time is of the
essence.

And then it happens. The whole plan takes it's course. All 'DD' needed to
do is wear a metal breastplate under his robes (AK's don't penetrate stone
or metal, apparantly) get hit, fall dramatically out of the window, cast a
cushioning spell, bugger off to the coldstorage where they hid the REAL
Dumble's body, place the body underneath the tower and hide until the
'juice wears off.

Result? Your righthand man is in deep, deep undercover and working from
the inside, your patsy, uh, your 'chosen one hero' is now kicked out of
his quidditch-centered complacency and off in a righteous anger to slay
the 'traitor' and kill himself a Dark Lord while he's at it (never give
too much information to patsies, uh, heroes, it makes them try to think
and that can only lead to disaster)

So, why wasn't Fawkes at the tower scene? Because Fawkes was DD familiar
and although still welcome in polyjuiced-DD office and probably still
willing to help polyjuiced-DD, he's not polyjuiced DD's familiar and has
no reason to hang around 'him'.
Fawkes was probably hanging around the 'cold-storage' where Dumble's body
was kept. No wonder his song was so soul-ripping: finally, after all this
time he can let show his grief.

Hey, it's not a bad theory. No worse than 'Snape is Fawkes' at any rate :-)

(actually, I would *love* it if Fawkes turned out to be Snape)


Marion