‘No, you should do it.’
‘Me?’ said Ron, looking shocked. ‘Why?’
‘Because you got the sword out of the pool. I think it’s supposed to be you.’
He was not being kind or generous. As certainly as he had known that the doe was benign, he knew that Ron had to be the one to wield the sword. Dumbledore had at least taught Harry something about certain kinds of magic, of the incalculable power of certain acts....
‘You can do it,’ said Harry, ‘you can! You’ve just got the sword, I know it’s supposed to be you who uses it. Please, just get rid of it, Ron.’
A resposta curta é que ele sabia que tinha que jogar o jeito que ele sabia que tinha que jogar. Isso incluía não tentar mais nenhum charme, escudo ou outros truques.
Harry também reconhece que quando ele abrir, o fragmento Horcrux tentará matá-lo imediatamente. Ao dar a espada a Ron, a presença de Harry pode distraí-lo por tempo suficiente para que Ron seja capaz de danificá-lo:
‘I’m going to open it,’ said Harry, ‘and you stab it. Straight away, OK? Because whatever’s in there will put up a fight. The bit of Riddle in the diary tried to kill me.’ ‘How are you going to open it?’ asked Ron. He looked terrified.
‘I’m going to ask it to open, using Parseltongue,’ said Harry. The answer came so readily to his lips that he thought that he had always known it, deep down: perhaps it had taken his recent encounter with Nagini to make him realise it. He looked at the serpentine ‘S’, inlaid with glittering green stones: it was easy to visualise it as a minuscule snake, curled upon the cold rock
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