State of the DA /Did Ron and Hermione use the coins?

[shanhut]

No: HPFGUIDX 156349

> Lynda:
>
> In the pandomonium and hubbub of the DE attack on Hogwarts,
Hermione might
> not have had a chance to use the coins.  Stranger things than that
have been
> known to happen in non-fictional crises.  As for this not being
mentioned
> due to unreliable narrator, I don't think that's necessarily so.
It's
> simply that if she used the coins, it wasn't mentioned in the
text.  That's
> not unreliable narrator. That's writer's prerogative in
storytelling.  JMHO,
> of course.
>


They were able to used the Marauder's Map, that Harry left with them,
to find people and watch for Draco and Snape.  Also on page 552 in
HBP, Harry says "Use anyone else who you can rustle up from the D.A.,
Hermione, those contact Galleons will still work, right?"  I think
they used both.  Anyone who believed in the D.A. and still were
hoping it would be reprised, kept their coins so they could be
contacted if and when needed.  Some may have showed up but when they
saw the death eaters come out of the Room of Requirement, ran for
help or wnet back to their houses.  They really weren't prepared for
that big a fight.

Shan