Harry Potter: 15 WORST Plot-Holes In Wizarding World Movies

6. Why Does Dumbledore Stop The Kids Getting Assistance

Albus Dumbledore was not a good mentor. He was wilfully guarded, dangerously impulsive and almost comically wreckless. He was also the main means by which JK Rowling could retain the threat to her central three characters in the Harry Potter books even as she'd built in useful support for them in the Order.

When the horcruxes are revealed to exist, Dumbledore insists that the three children tasked with finding them tell nobody about them. He does this with the suggestion that he's protecting them from anyone who might pass that information back to Voldemort, who could make plans to stop them. That much makes sense, but it absolutely doesn't make sense that he'd make them withhold the information from the members of the Order that Dumbledore himself chose as trustworthy and honourable enough to be in the Order in the first place.

Why did he all of a sudden no longer trust them? Wouldn't Lupin or Kingsley have been particularly valuable allies to the kids on their journey? You know, particularly after it was very obvious that Voldemort knew what was going on?!