15 Questions about "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" Part 2 | For Children

Answer: From the goblin Griphook

While hidden in their tent, they overheard a group of "undesirables" who were on the run and in hiding from the Ministry and their war on non-purebloods. Included in this group were a couple of goblins and former Gryffindor Dean Thomas. As each individual shared his reason for being on the run, Griphook was delighted to report that the sword they were trying so hard to protect was indeed a replica, and not the actual, goblin-made sword.

He found this particularly amusing, given the circumstances, and had not shared this observation with anyone at the Ministry or at Hogwarts.

Answer: He and Harry fought about their lack of progress in achieving anything.

After listening in on the conversation of the band of run-aways, Ron was particularly upset to hear that Ginny had been punished for being part of the group of students who'd been caught trying to steal the sword. This added to his frustration with their lack of progress (and being hungry all the time) and he confronted Harry about his not really knowing what they needed to do.

The fact that he was wearing the Horcrux/locket at the time added to his bad mood and when Harry asked him why he was still there, he decided to leave.

Answer: The Deluminator he'd inherited from Dumbledore

Apparently Ron regretted leaving almost immediately, but he'd been caught by a bunch of Snatchers (groups acting like bounty hunters, trying to catch people from the Ministry's list of undesirables). By the time he got free of them and disapparated back, Harry and Hermione had moved on.

He wandered around by himself for a while, and then heard Hermione's voice through the Deluminator in his pocket. When he used the Deluminator, a little ball of light led him to near where Harry and Hermione were hiding.

He couldn't see through their protective spells to the actual tent though, and he had to follow them a second time before he saw Harry leave the tent in pursuit of the doe Patronus that led them to the real Sword of Gryffindor.

Answer: He spoke Parseltongue to it.

Harry followed the doe Patronus to a pool of water. He could see the sword at the bottom of the pool and dove in to get it. Unfortunately he was wearing the locket/Horcrux which tightened around his neck and tried to suffocate him. Fortunately Ron returned in time to save Harry from drowning and to retrieve the sword from the bottom of the pool. Unable to force the locket on before this, once they had the sword, Harry simply knew that he had to speak Parseltongue to make the locket open. Ron used the sword to destroy the Horcrux within.

The Horcrux did put up a fight for its life, but Ron eventually triumphed!

Answer: Harry spoke Voldemort's name.

Figuring that only the people who wanted to resist Voldemort were brave enough to use Voldemort's name, the Ministry had put a jinx on the name, enabling them to track anyone who spoke it. Since Hermione and Ron had never been in the habit of using Voldemort's name, it was easy for them to avoid it. Harry, however, had never been shy of using the name, so he slipped up and spoke it.

They were immediately surrounded by a group of Snatchers, led by the werewolf Greyback, who took them to the Death Eaters' headquarters in the Malfoy house. Lovegood did try to turn them in, in exchange for Luna, and Nagini was hiding in Bathilda's body, but our friend managed to escape those traps.

Answer: Bellatrix Lestrange

After being captured and taken to the Malfoys' house, Bellatrix recognized the Sword of Gryffindor, which she believed to be hidden in her vault at Gringotts. Her refusal to summon the Dark Lord until they determined how they had gotten the sword, and her almost hysterical reaction to the thought that they might have been in her vault (she tortured Hermione) made Harry suspect that something even more valuable than the sword was hidden there, and he was right. Hermione belayed Bellatrix's suspicions by convincing her that the sword they possessed was a fake.

The goblin Griphook lied and confirmed this.

Answer: Aberforth Dumbledore

The mirror fragment was part of a pair of mirrors that gave the holders the ability to communicate with each other. Sirius had given one to Harry (in "The Order of the Phoenix") and kept the other for himself. After Sirius died, Mundungus stole his mirror and Aberforth bought it from him, recognizing it for what it was, and using it to keep track of our friends.

When he saw what danger they were in, he sent Dobby to help them escape. Dobby was able to disapparate out, taking a bunch of prisoners with him. Harry and Ron stayed behind to rescue Hermione and Dobby came back for them. Dobby was successful in getting them out safely as well, but was stabbed by Bellatrix.

He died after getting his beloved Harry Potter to safety.

Answer: Griphook

Traditionally, relationships between goblins and humans had been frosty at best. However, they would never have managed to get into the vault (never mind getting out again) without him. Griphook was impressed with Harry's obvious affection for Dobby and with the respect he showed Dobby when burying him.

This made Griphook consider helping, but when he made his decision to help, he asked for the Sword of Gryffindor, claiming that it rightfully belonged to goblins since it had been taken from them hundreds of years before. Knowing that they needed the sword to destroy the Horcruxes, Harry tried to devise a plan which would allow him to keep his word, but only after the Sword had been used to destroy the last Horcrux. Things didn't work out that way, and Griphook did get away with the sword, after the cup was obtained.

The sword later returned to them in the Sorting Hat, the same way it had come to Harry's aid when he faced the Basilisk in the second book.

Answer: They rode out on the back of a dragon.

The goblins had a dragon chained in the underground passages, as part of the protection for the vaults. It had been taught to expect pain when it heard the sound of the Clankers, which was how the goblins controlled it. Harry released the dragon and the three friends climbed on its back.

As it flew through the narrow tunnels, Hermione used the Defodio spell to enlarge the tunnels. They jumped off of its back when they were over water and it flew to freedom.

Answer: He read Voldemort's mind.

When Voldemort heard that Harry had broken into the Lestranges' vault, he was angry, making it easy for Harry to link minds with him. He became aware, for the first time, that Harry knew of the existence of the Horcruxes and made a decision to check on them, to make sure they were safe.

He reasoned that the one at Hogwarts was safest and decided to check on that one last. Harry read this thought and so our friends set off for Hogwarts.

Answer: Through the picture of Ariana Dumbledore

They disapparated to Hogsmeade, setting off the curfew alarm and bringing Death Eaters after them. The proprietor of the Hog's Head (who turned out to be Alberforth Dumbledore) took them in and told the Death Eaters that his cat had set off the alarm.

When he realized that they meant to go through with the task that his brother had set for them, he had his sister (in the portrait) summon Neville Longbottom, who escorted them into Hogwarts, where a group of students were hiding in the Room of Requirement.

Answer: In Dumbledore's crypt

The legend of the Deathly Hallows spoke of three items of immeasurable power, the Resurrection Stone, the Cloak of Invisibility and the Elder Wand. Legend told that any wizard in possession of all three of these items would be able to defy death. Harry inherited the Invisibility Cloak from his father and the Resurrection Stone from Dumbledore. Voldemort began searching for the Elder Wand, because he was unhappy about the way the twin cores in his and Harry's wands had caused his wand to behave. He finally tracked down the wand to its last owner, Dumbledore, and surmised correctly that the wand had been entombed with him.

He cracked open Dumbledore's crypt and took the wand. By the time this happened Harry knew that he had to choose between trying to beat Voldemort to the wand, or seeking what he believed to be the next to last Horcrux, with Voldemort's snake being the last (as far as he knew).

Answer: The Elder Wand was not working properly for him.

Voldemort had not been able to get the legendary Elder wand to work to its full potential. He decided that the reason why it would not do this was because the wand truly belonged to the person who killed its previous owner. Since it had been Snape who had killed Dumbledore, Voldemort thought that the wand truly belonged to Snape and not to himself, even though Voldemort had taken the wand from Dumbledore's tomb.

Therefore Voldemort believed that he needed to kill Snape to make the wand truly his, so that it would work to its full potential. Being Voldemort, he had no problem doing this, and, despite the fact that he was truly pleased with all he that Snape had done for him, he ordered Nagini to kill him.

Answer: Yes

Voldemort left Snape, barely clinging to life, in the Shrieking Shack. Harry, Hermione and Ron had watched the whole confrontation from underneath the Invisibility Cloak, and Harry went to see Snape just before he died. Snape instructed Harry to take the silvery memory threads that were leaking out of Snape's mind. Harry took these thoughts to Dumbledore's old office and read them in the Pensieve located there. What he saw left him no room for doubt that Snape had indeed been Dumbledore's man, right up to the very end. He also learned that Voldemort had inadvertently turned Harry into a Horcrux when he had tried to kill him as a baby, and that no one would be able to kill Voldemort while that Horcrux remained inside him.

Answer: James, Sirius, Lily, and Lupin

When Scrimgeour gave him the Snitch, Harry learned that Snitches carried flesh memories, to recognize the first human to lay hands on it (this was to avoid arguments about who caught it in a Quidditch game). When Harry's touch didn't open it, he remembered that he had caught that particular Snitch with his mouth, but contact with his mouth failed to open it too.
When they learned about the Deathly Hallows, Harry figured out that the Resurrection Stone was inside the Snitch.
Written on the Snitch were the words "I open at the close." Walking to meet Voldemort for the last time, Harry figured out what that line meant and was finally able to open the Snitch. He resurrected forms of these people, whom he had loved and who had loved him, to go with him to what he believed would be his death.