Fawkes' Absence after Dumbledore's death

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 178996

strange_familiarities:
> I have a question about Fawkes. Does he have some sort of mortal bond
> with Dumbledore? He seemed to have totally disappeared from the books.
> I might have missed something, but I do not understand where he
> disappeared to. Also, if he did not die, then why didn't he rescue
> Snape? In CoS, Dumbledore explained to Harry that Fawkes helps those
> who are loyal to Dumbledore, and who was more loyal to Dumbledore than
> Snape?
>

a_svirn:
I was pretty sure that it was Fawkes who set fire to Dumbledore's pyre 
(thus putting stop to his own reincarnations). The whole scene was like 
a replay of the Phoenix and the Turtle, except that Shakespearian 
Phoenix was female. Then again we know now that Dumbledore was gay