The Trio Alone (was Re: Hermione's Enchanted Coins WAS: Communication)

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 175487

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
> 
> Something that confunded me in DH was why Hermione, Harry, and Ron 
> didn't even have ONE SINGLE enchanted DA coin between the three of 
> them, for purposes of communicating with Neville and the rest of 
the 
> gang. Hermione had been so well-prepared for their leaving, so 
>thorough in 
> packing...I really think she would have had her coin. I mean, she's 
> the one who invented the danged things! And, if for some reason, 
she 
> did not, wouldn't Harry or Ron have had theirs?
> 
> This seemed like something that could have been explained in one 
> simple line, but wasn't.

va32h:

I would imagine that the trio did not want or expect to be 
communicating with anyone else. They keep the purpose and details of 
their mission a complete secret, and Harry fears that anyone who is 
in contact with him is in danger. 

This brings up a larger question - was that a reasonable and 
necessary belief? Did the Trio have to complete this mission alone? 
Molly makes a very good point - why is Dumbledore giving this job to 
three teenagers with the whole Order at his disposal?

I admit, my interpretation of Harry using the power of love to defeat 
Voldemort involved letting other people - lots of other people - aid 
in the journey. I thought Harry would get cursebreaking tips from 
Bill, and sneak into the Ministry with Arthur's help, and round up a 
beastly army with Hagrid's help and find out information on Horcruxes 
from Slughorn, or Lupin, or and old crone who lives on a mist-
shrouded moor and only speaks in riddles. And there would be runes to 
translate and codes to break and great distances to travel with 
multiple safe houses and dozens of people helping along the way. It 
would be this great collective effort, embodied by Harry, but not 
just about Harry. 

And we did get some of those things - but not nearly on the scale I 
felt the previous books had been building toward. Harry is no 
Voldemort, working entirely alone, but he's depending on Ron and 
Hermione as exclusively as Voldemort is depending on his horcruxes.

How do other readers feel? Did you expect/want it to be another Trio 
journey or would you have wanted more involvement from the other 
characters. Do you think Dumbledore's decision to put this task in 
the hands of *just* the trio was a wise one? 

va32h, longing desperately for topics that do not remotely involve 
Sirius or Snape.