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

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 166322

> Carol:
> Regarding Fawkes, I've already explained why I think he was absent
> from the tower: Dumbledore didn't summon him. And he's probably absent
> from the funeral because he's already sung his own lament; human
> rituals are meaningless to him.

a_svirn:
Except that Dumbledore's funeral wasn't just a "human" ritual. There 
were the Merpeople with their otherworldly music, the centaurs with 
their salute. Not to mention, the ritual itself was somewhat unusual. 
The entire setting was emphatically -a-human – it looked like the 
triumph of magical unity over the diversity of the species.