"It's obvious, now. Why do we have a connection to each other's minds? "Neither can live, while the other survives." But I won't survive, will I? Of course, Dumbledore had a bigger plan." Harry laughed hollowly. "How neat, how elegant, not to waste any more lives, but to give the dangerous task to the boy who had already been marked for slaughter and whose death would not be a calamity but another blow against Voldemort." Harry stood up, Ron and Hermione went to follow him. 