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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.
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 on Harry's use of magic in the Burrow on his birthday 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 at a distance from 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.
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