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As a side light, we note that Harry's being able to do magic at will after his seventeenth birthday proves nothing about whether the Trace has ended ("been broken"). At the time, Harry is in Ron's room, in close company with a wizard who is of age (Ron). In such a situation, as we have noted above, the Trace does not respond to use of magic in the vicinity. This actually becomes a plot point shortly thereafter: the following day, the Trio leave The Burrow as the news of the fall of the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Ministry of Magic|Ministry]] reaches there, and shortlyare afterwards arethen attacked by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Death Eaters|Death Eaters]] in a café on the Tottenham Court Road. Harry wonders if they had been located through the Trace, but Ron dismisses that, saying the Trace could not have been re-established since it had broken the day before, as Harry had not been approached by any Ministry wizards in the meanwhile.
 
As both Ron and Hermione are of age before Harry, even if the Trace had remained in place, it quite possibly would have remained quiescent as long as Harry remained in their company. So the fact that it had not triggered a warning from the Ministry is not a clear indication that it had ceased to exist. As it turns out, there is no point at which Harry was completely out of the company of nominally-mature wizards until after the retreat to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Grimmauld Place]]. Once they have settled there, Harry does [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Apparition|Apparate]] out to the approaches to the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Ministry of Magic|Ministry]] as the Trio plan their break-in. This is the first point in the story where Harry is performing magic whenat hea isdistance not nearfrom mature wizards. We believe that this surveillance of the Ministry continues through much of August, starting after [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mundungus Fletcher|Mundungus]] is brought back to Grimmauld Place, possibly a week after Harry's birthday. So while we cannot be certain exactly when the Trace is broken, it is reasonably certain that it occurred no later than early August, and that it is likely that it occurred as expected on Harry's birthday.
 
This is worth mentioning because a plot point hinges on it. After the Death Eater attack on the Tottenham Court Road, Harry wonders if they might have located the Trio by means of the Trace. Despite Ron's assurances, readers may wonder if the Trace could still be active, given that Harry had not been out of the company of mature wizards when doing magic. It will turn out that the mechanism by which they had been discovered was their use of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Voldemort's]] name; Voldemort had placed a taboo on his name, so that Death Eaters could be sent to destroy anyone who dared to speak it. Harry's raising the possibility of the Trace still being active obscures this possibility, until it is revealed by Ron after Christmas.