You really don't like Griphook, do you? Oh well. The scum deserves it
The goblins. Until Harry Potter, my two main vies of goblins were from JRR Tolkien and Jim Henson's version. Jim henon's version dealt with the wishing away of babies and their leader was a fae by the name of Jareth(Labyrith)
As to Fawkes staying with Dumblemore. I'v seen these seven in fanfics:
1) Enslaved via a spell
2) placed as a watch to keep Albie's evil in check and reports to some other wizard or witch altogether
3) Bound to the school and not Albus at all. Whoever is headmaster has Fawkes.
4) You theory of can't leave his bonded until he passes on.
5) Slowly being corrupted by Albus. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
6) He's immortal and bored out of his mind and sticklinbg with Albus is just passing time for a while and geyying soem good laughs.
7 Firebirds are just atttracted by a wizards power and not their personality. Grindelwald had a firebird in one fic.
Ah well. It' an entertaining fic so far.
Author's response
Heya Tom!
It could have been any of the goblins. In fact, I have a story in the works where he calls Griphook ‘Brother’, so it just happens in the cases of JEDI, DIRTY HARRY (not ready yet), and this one, where I make him suffer. I’ve mentioned before that Rowling (if she wrote that book at all) did the goblins a real disservice. In fact, I read a fic before HBP came out that had Bill Weasley describing the Gobs just as JKR (or her ghostwriter) depicted them in DH.
IMO, Tolkien’s goblins were more like Imperial stormtroopers than anything else, and my daughter and I have watched Labyrinth so many times, we’ve worn out the videotape.
Fawkes: Each of those is a plausible explanation.
Alorkin