I don't see why those sentenced to Azkaban wouldn't have their wands broken, are you telling me that that's the punishment for getting expelled from a school but not for going to prison?

3:33 - "You're in trouble if you get too fond of or dependent on the Horcrux" Isn't Harry a Horcrux? Isn't roughly everyone in trouble, then?

Weasleys: we are really trying to make our house safe for you Harry, putting spells around it, always checking each other, worried about the death eaters. Also Weasleys: let’s throw a big wedding party on our yard!

Harry could also have been the secret keeper. He couldn’t speak yet, so he was the safest bet.

Merphy: How are wizards so DUMB?? JK Rowling: Did you know that wizards used to poop themselves and just vanish it away?

Regarding the horcrux affecting the kids as they wear it - it is possible that, because the kids knew what it was and were emotionally invested in destroying it as part of their quest, they had also made themselves vulnerable.

I think it should also be noted that Harry and the team never had a good reason to wear the locket horcrux in the first place. And it was especially silly to continue wearing it once they realized that their personalities were negatively affected by it. I don't buy the explanation that Harry wanted to "keep it safe." There is magic for that. "Are you a wizard or aren't you??"

Also Harry and the gang annoyed me on the run. Best believe if i was trying to save the whole wizarding world from a tyrant, I would have no guilt in nightly nicking local McDonalds. Were at war bro nobody cares if you rob the supermarket of some chocolate.

Honestly, if you were being sent to Azkaban for a very serious and/or dangerous crime, I would think your wand would not only be taken, but broken.

yeah the thing about wands in the beginning is even worse if you think about how they broke hagrids wand for a one-time not confirmed crime

Merphy: Essentially, what you're telling me, is that James valued his declaration of friendship over the safety of his wife and child. Me: Yeaaaaaah, that sounds like James to me.

I once made a theory that with a single wand, house elf, invisibility cloack and a broom, you can basically take over the entirety of the Wizarding World in a week. You don't even need to be a fricking wizard! The wand is to plant it on someone to frame, in case you're caught. Seriously, the security in this world is an absolute joke. "Hogwarts is the safest place" my butt, a DOG can just get in.

So my immediate thought about replenishing food was, that yes you can increase the amount of food exponentially, but all that extra food would still exist in the same state as the original item, it wouldn't immediately become brand new. Let's say you have a loaf of bread. You can expand that on day 1 and you have a ton of bread, but by day 4 the bread is going mouldy and trying to expand it only gives you a ton of mouldy bread. Therefore it is necessary to constantly be finding new, fresh food items to expand; this spell frees you from the need to find sufficient quantities to feed everyone, (you could potentially just obtain one potato chip and expand it), but you would always need fresh foodstuffs.

Dobby didn't break the Fedilius Charm. Ron was able to tell him where to go, but you wouldn't be able to see the house or get into it without the Secret Keeper telling you. Dobby just got them to the beach nearby

Shell Cottage wasn't under the Fidelius Charm until after the golden trio, Dobby, Griphook, Dean, Ollivander and Luna arrived there. Bill let all the Weasleys know that Harry and Ron were imprisoned and got out to there so all the weasleys went into hiding, because the Death Eaters now knew Ron was with Harry and not ill at home with spattergroit, which put the entire Weasley family at risk

RE: Wearing the horcrux vs being dependent on it, one could argue that in their desperate circumstances, the trio felt incredibly dependent on it because it was one of the vital keys to saving the wizarding world. A LOT depended on keeping it safe and in their possession.

the one thing that i hate the most about the last movie was that harry never used the elder wand to fix his wand or hogwarts -_-

Apparently it's not just that you sacrifice yourself for the other person, or else James's sacrifice would have protected Lily. The murderer needs to give the victim the choice to live, but they chose to die for someone anyways. Snape asked Voldy to spare Lily, so he gives her the choice to live. Voldy tells Lily to get out of the way, but she chose to stay. I can see that being a lot more rare than someone just sacrificing themselves for another person.

Someone already mentioned the "choice" element in the sacrificial protection Lily/Harry are able to give, so I'll just note how reasonable it is for, in a pre-globalized society, information about magic to not be perfectly disseminated. Happened all the time in our own history. We can assume people survived AK before (under the strict circumstances involving choice & sacrifice) but it wasn't a high profile occurrence that captured the public imagination. The books are also very Eurocentric, so in my headcanon, this is a case of a bunch of British witches and wizards going around saying, "Wow, crazy, boy who lived, never been done, innit?" while the history of magic in other cultures is rife with examples of people skirting the killing curse.

I feel like the house-elf thing makes a lot of sense. They knew how strong they were so they tried to make them feel like lesser beings to have control over them.

Very recently, this series got me through a severely bad fit of anxiety attacks. Thank you so much, Merphy, you truly were the chocolate to my Dementors!

Tiny note: Yaxley talking about how hard it was to infiltrate the ministry was a bluff. I’m not saying it wasn’t hard, but he was trying to talk up how much he did to impress Voldy. He wants to gain favor and is feeling bad because Snape is getting all the attention in that scene.

8:08 There was a part in the book where they try to multiply fish but then decide not to because each copy felt less fulfilling than the last . And I think you can't easily create counterfeit money since coins probably have goblin magic

Didn’t “Moody” teach them the unforgivable curses? It was primarily in a defense sense sure but he was doing these in front of the students in full view.

House Elves don't necessarily have stronger magic than wizards. They have a different FORM of magic than wizards. Plus, since more wizards discount elf magic, they don't set up protective spells against them, and in many cases, they don't want to essentially shackle the elf magically, because if they can move around magically, they can get more chores done. Also, the part of the book where McGonagall mentions the law of transfiguration is where they are entering the Ravenclaw common room. It is stated that when you create something magically, you are barrowing matter from everything else around you. With that knowledge, when you are trying to multiply your food, you are not duplicating the exact atoms of your food. You're barrowing from the objects around you, and thus not necessarily getting nutrients from around you. Plus, you have to remember the 'skill' level of the wizards in this world. While some spells are easily performed by Hermione and Dumbledore, this is complicated magic for other people. Some wizards are not very skillful, just like normal people everywhere. Remember the Quikspell Course from book two. There are some really talentless wizards in this world, and they have no way to increase their food on their own.

Does anyone know why everyone took polyjuice potion to turn into Harry? I thought it would have made more sense to make Harry turn into someone else so that nobody would be in danger, am I missing something?

About James not being secret keeper: It was Dumbledore who told the Potters about the fidelius charm. I'm guessing he didn't tell them that they could be their own secret keeper. Because Dumbledore knew James too well. He knew James would not stay confined within the safety of the fidelius charm unless he was forced to. It's also one of the reasons he took his invisibility cloak. So James wouldn't sneak out of the house. So Dumbledore told them about the charm and that they had to appoint a secret keeper but skipped the part where it could be themselves. He was probably hoping they would pick him but they didn't.

Hermione was talking about Horcruxes in the context of being possessed by them, like Ginny was with the diary. They have this conversation at The Burrow. They never become emotionally attached to the locket and are therefore never possessed by it later on in the book. It just affects their mood when they wear it for a certain amount of time.

I'm surprised you didn't talk at all about the Elder Wand. For me, the way the Elder Wand (and wands in general) changes allegiance has never made much sense.

As other people have pointed out, there are problems with Hermione erasing her parents’ memory. 1. Firstly, why isn’t a mind-erasing spell illegal? Think of the damage that could be done with that spell, not to mention the number of criminals you could keep of the streets with it. Azkaban is pretty much pointless when you could make criminals forget who they are. 2. Just because her parents don’t remember who she is anymore doesn’t mean they’re no longer in danger. Hogwarts is bound to have records on them which the Death Eaters would be able to look up easily. 3. All of their friends and relatives are going to come round and say “Hey where’s Hermione gone?” “Who?” “Your teenage daughter? You have a picture of her over th… why do you have a picture of a blank wall?” 4. Now that Hermione has disappeared her parents are going to be involved in a missing persons case. And since her parents conveniently don’t remember who she is anymore they are probably going to be suspected of murder and be facing charges. Congratulations Hermione, you have just given your parents twenty-five years to life imprisonment, I hope you are proud of yourself.

16:14 "Something very specific about Lily." Lily was given the choice to live but chose to die to protect harry. BTW this means Snape saved baby Harry because it was only because Snape asked Voldemort to spare Lily that he gave her a chance to step aside. JK Rowling specified that you have to be given the choice to live but choose to die for the sacrificial magic to work.

I noticed a thing during snape's memory... First, remember in the first book how the dersleys laughed about the whole nine and a quarter platform? Now coming back to snape's memory, there's a scene where Lilly was going to Hogwarts for the first time petunia was there with the parents to see Lilly off.. now in book one I get it she didn't want vernin to think she had anything to do with magic.. but still at least some weird expression would have been cool from petunia when Harry mentions the platform first time.. not a plothole.. just it would have been cool..

For the wand thing, I'm pretty sure when death eaters are sent to azkaban, their wands are snapped (the same thing happened with Hagrid right?). And the death eaters captured Ollivander so that he could make wands for them and for information about the elder wand.

Another thing about the love protection charm - Lily's protection only lasted until Harry turned 17. Yet at the Battle of Hogwarts most of the people there fighting were OVER that age, so they shouldn't have been protected.

I think that Lily and Harry's sacrificial love spell only worked the way it did against Voldemort and no other, because it was a way to counter someone as evil and as loveless as someone who would create horcruxes to remain immortal. In a literary sense, it is showing how love is the only thing that can conquer hatred or evil. I'm rereading the whole series now in quarantine, but I think the only time this sacrificial love took effect was against Voldemort, and the only reason why is because the dark magic he performed on himself for immortality made him vulnerable to the power of unconditional love and sacrifice. I enjoyed your video!

Am i the only one severely put off hearing voldemort with a silent t I know its right but it just hurts hearing it like that

- There was a very specific thing that allowed Harry and Lily to protect others: they were given the chance to save themselves, but they didn't. Lily was told by Voldemort to "step aside" and Harry was given the hour in which time he was given the opportunity to flee, but he willingly went to his death - I've always thought that the food situation was that every time you enlarge the quantity you are multiplying what you already have. So if you multiply perishable food, you are also multiplying the bacteria so it will go bad just as quickly. - Also, I thought that maybe becoming your own secret keeper was a new revelation after the Potters' death. - Maybe the death eaters think that the "good guys" wouldn't use the unforgivable curses so they didn't think it was necessary to protect themselves? - With the wands in Azkaban, I thought it would be like muggle jail. All your possessions are kept for you while you are in prison and then given back to you on your release. You could argue that their wands are "murder weapons", but they are so multi-purpose that I just assumed that it would be like getting back a cell phone or any other possession upon release

Bill didn’t put the Fidelius (sp) charm on shell cottage until after everyone was there.

I also remember Voldemort conjuring roses in one of the memories, but you can make jam from roses.

I have ALWAYS wondered why the protective magic Lily's sacrifice gave to Harry had not been discovered before. Like has no other wizard in history sacrificed themself for a loved one!?

One could argue that the locket symbolizes their hope in defeating Voldemort which is why they have an attachment to it. WIld guess though..

The love spell thing can be sorta explained. In order for for the sacrificial love spell thingy(tm) to work, You MUST have a choice to live but choose to die. Voldy repeatedly asked lily to move(not nicely, duh... but still he did) but she willingly sacrificed herself. I am sure others have sacrificed themselves for someone but they were obviously not given a choice. It's not only about choosing death but choosing it over a chance at staying alive.

Your speaking cadence reminds me so much of one of my child hood friends. She would give impassioned book reviews in class and it takes me back! Thanks for this whole Doesn't Make Sense series!

"how is every wizard so dumb?" Well, they only finished lower school and some dumb stuff about spells, plants and potions etc. You have no art, english, french, history, geography, people studies, economy, etc. you get the point

The wand plot is easily explained by saying that Voldermort's followers and Sympathizers work at the ministry so stealing a wand that belongs to a Death-Eaters shouldn't be so difficult. Sirius's wand problem was due to Dumbledore grounding him.

The wand thing both cracks me up at how ironical it is and makes me scratch my head. Apparently children who do under-aged magic are threatened with the breaking of their wand or actually HAVE had their wands broken, but MURDERERS just have their wand taken away. That's some disproportionate punishment right there. No! You break the wand of the murderer and take away the child's wand! Not the other way around.

From what I remember, Bill and Arthur become secret keepers of Shell Cottage and Aunt Muriel's respectively AFTER the events of Malfoy Manor. It's only after they've arrived and Ron's whereabouts revealed to the Death Eaters do the Weasley's go under cover. Shell Cottage is therefore not under the protection of the Fidelius Charm and "broken through" by Dobby.

Bill works with gringotts in Egypt and likely experiences the fidelius charm quite often. He is probably one of the wizards who understands it best in the world. I’m guessing the whole “making yourself a secret keeper” thing is much more complex, and likely not even known about by Dumbledore while he was placing the fidelius charm on James and Lily.

The other thing about the emotionally attached to the Horcrux thing that I always think about is: If Harry's been a horcrux this whole time, then wouldn't people who are emotionally attached to him (like Molly, Arthur, Sirius, Remus, Ginny, Hermione and Ron) have the same effect that the diary had on Ginny? I suppose you could argue that it's different because Harry's a person not an object, but I wish that had been followed up on or something

I always thought of Lily and James’ Fidelius charm being cast on themselves, not on the house, as an extra security. The house most likely already had one cast on it).If you are your own secret guardian, then no one would be able to see you again.

I’ve always thought that the magic of Harry protecting all of those people was only because his mother had done it for him and possibly because he’s the chosen one. But mainly I think it’s kind of the world being righted by Harry sacrificing himself just like his parents did for him.

This is a great series, and I really enjoyed your videos in your trip through the HP books. Thanks for the fun content!

So I don't remember the scene in the book, but I kinda assume they kept stealing new food because replenishing the food with magic doesn't prevent the food from going bad. But at same time, I agree with you, cause I think a reasonable person would assume wizards and witches would've figured out how to preserve food with magic by the 1990s.

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Your voice got me. The theory kept me. The explanation and logic made me a fan!

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I’m going to offer a defense of two of the bigger problems that you pointed out. This is from my own head-cannon and probably isn’t totally justified by the actual text. 1) Hermione only read that you had to be “close” to a horcrux in order to be affected. Pouring your heart and soul into the horcrux was actually her own commentary and explanation, not something she read directly. I would posit that although Harry and the gang didn’t pour their hearts and souls into the horcrux, they were without question “close” to it. Harry refused to allow anyone to carry it in a bag. He insisted that it always be worn directly on their person. This certainly shows some attachment. Moreover, the horcrux was always around. It was there for their most important and intimate conversations with one another. It isn’t as if this is just some inanimate object that the kids are allowing into their inner circle either. They knew that it contained part of another living being and they still brought it in. This object became the most important thing in their world for several months. 2) Lily and Harry weren’t the first or only people to discover the protection of love. Dumbledore certainly knew about it (he modified it and enhanced it in order to provide Harry protection at the Dursley’s) as did Voldemort (though Voldemort didn’t understand it). They both referred to it as “old magic” at various times. I also like to believe (and this part is wholly unsupported by the text) that Harry actually did do something other than sacrifice himself for others without a struggle in order to activate the protective magic. Dumbledore spent most of his time with Harry trying to teach him the power of one very specific form of mysterious magic that was studied in the Department of Mysteries, love. By the end of book 7 it seems that Harry has finally learned this lesson and that he has obtained a deeper understanding of that branch of magic than any other. I think he may have done something else to activate the spell that JK chose not to show us in order to maintain the surprise of the reveal.

regarding the imperious curse on the minister, i always thought that it was difficult because he couldn't get him alone or something, silly me

this is awesome merphy! love you

The Wizards have just as many prejudices and blind spots as the muggles do.

It's been a long time since I've read the books, but didn't Barty Crouch Jr teach the kids about the Imperius curse when he was impersonating Moody?

I feel in this series a lot of things “happen “ just to make the story long. A lot of unnecessary problems. (It fun to read, but there is simpler ways of doing things. They often make the worst choices possible.)

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Exactly! I've always wondered why James didn't Fidelius himself so he could never be found. Even if you need someone else to be your Secret Keeper, you can still do like a closed loop where James made Sirius his Secret Keeper, and then Sirius can make James his Secret Keeper which means neither of them can ever be found

It happens when the writer makes up the law of the world as she goes on. You're bound to find inaccuracies and plotholes

Going off of your point about Shell Cottage and the fidelius charm, how Ron shouldn’t have been able to tell Dobby where it was unless House Elf magic is superior to wizard magic. When the death eater grabs hold of Hermione and they apparate to the steps of Grimauld Place, why does she now think that Death Eater can go tell everyone else where it is? SHE’S a secret keeper, so she can show/tell other people where it is, but they can’t tell anyone else because they’re not the secret keeper. Wasn’t this the thing that protected Snape from telling Voldemort where Grimauld Place was? So it shouldn’t have mattered that one Death Eater knew where it was, they could have just Obliviated him and continued using Grimauld Place.

from what i remember, the protection and sacrifice thingy only worked against voldemort bc he doesnt know anything/feel love and friendship.

Okay 7 Harrys? But why don’t they just let Harry go with like Arthur and switch with him, so they think Harry is one of the Harrys, but actually harry is Arthur

An interesting detail on the "love protection charm": in book 2 when Riddle asks Harry how he was able to defeat "the Dark Lord", Harry replies that he didn't know, but his mother sacrificed herself for him. At that point, Riddle understands calling it, "Ancient Magic" (I don't recall if he specifically says that here or in the cemetery in book 4, but his younger self DID understand once Harry told him what his mother did). This suggests such a thing is know, just not very common (and, indeed, very old). Also, I had originally thought that Lilly had thrown herself in front of the blast, but have since found out that she was killed outright (after he told her she didn't have to die), and THEN tried to kill Harry. BTW, did anybody else notice that horcruxes were destroyed in the same order they were created? I'm not 100% on that, but I'm at least 80%. Finally, I find it interesting that Voldy never figured out that Harry was a horcruxe, even though it would seem quite obvious. Indeed, I doubt he would have tried to kill Harry if he'd known (though he might have had somebody else do so). I suspect this might have been due to a lack of intent to create one, though it has recently occurred to me that maybe he did. Perhaps he had planned on using Lilly as a horcruxe as his first "live person" test (Nagini being the actual test). However, when he was "forced" to kill her, that part wasn't going to take place...except, of course, it did. Just a musing.

Bill and Fluer didn't go into hiding until after Harry and Co. escaped from Malfoy Manor.

Thank you so much! These (and do much more) are things that bothered me when I first read the book, but people were so rabidly happy about how the series went that I just didn’t say anything.

I always read it that from the moment Neville killed Nagini and Harry was "alinve again"under his cloak, he was secretly putting Shield Charms on everyone he could, so Voldy could not curse them, and lateron only said that about him sacrificing himself for them all and so on, just to make Voldy THINK he could not cuse anyone anymore.

Surely when James Potter went to head off Voldermorte in order to buy Lilly some time to 'take Harry and run'. James' sacrifice should of protected Lilly before Lilly's protected Harry. Meaning Harry would of least had a mother

About the Love protection, one must chose to die. They must chose between a situation where they would live but, instead, give their lives to save someone else. It's a bit mire specific

As far as the imperious curse, fake Moody showed it to the students and taught them the incantation in Goblet of Fire, so presumably he saw the wand movements, etc as well. And then Harry tried the cruciatus curse on Bellatrix in Order of the Phoenix. It hurt her a little bit, but it didn’t quite work. Bellatrix told him that you have to really MEAN Unforgivable Curses in order to use them. So I think it made sense for Harry to successfully use the imperious curse.

Okay so im so so Late with this, but I was just rewatching the video and I actually think the Locket is so close to you emotionally, by, for the lack of a better description, listening to your heart. You wear it practically right on your chest and that’s how I think it knew what Ron was fearing so much.

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For me the biggest plothole is how Ron is the one to leave after exposure to the horcrux. He was always the Hufflepuff of the group, the least likely to turn evil. It just seemed that by the end of the series, Rowling liked the character less and less.

“Hermione was able to accio some Horcrux books to her” -the most Harry Potter sentence ever 😂

I always wondered why they didn't just disapparate when the snatchers found them. They has plenty of time- it only takes seconds.

I thought Mad Eye Moody taught everyone in his defense against the dark arts class the 4 unforgivable spells.

Ron learns how to speak parseltongue by listening to Harry talk in his sleep. In fact, he becomes so proficient at it that he is able to open the Chamber of Secrets during the Battle of Hogwarts when Harry sends him off to fetch a basilisk fang. I've always been sure this is a case where Rowling just forgot. The way it's set up and explained in the text, Harry sends Ron off, completely forgets about the whole parseltongue password thing, and afterwords there's a line of dialog with this "explanation." I'm sure some editor remembered, and rather than rewrite the whole Battle sequence, they decided to just be lazy and toss in those lines.

I have a theory on the magic of House Elves (R.I.P Dobby, the one moment made me cry out of nowhere on my first read). Their magic seems primitive in nature, loyalty. Apparently, they are not powerful themselves but rather gain power through the bond with their masters. Due to past mistreatment it does not surprise me at all that no one has made note of this.

I really have only just broached looking at reviews or criticism of this series? I really appreciate you taking a sceptical and logical look. I felt like book 6 jumped into the absurd and it never recovered and I have felt like I'm crazy... And to be honest, I feel like you're way, way more generous than I would be about it all holding up. But oh my goodness you have such good points and it is such a relief and a pleasure to watch! Just, clearly an authentic viewpoint and so smart and succinct. Thank you

I always took Harry doing the imperius curse, as the horcrux part of him, being good at doing those kinds of spells.

Merphy: Essentially, what you're telling me, is that James valued his declaration of friendship over the safety of his wife and child. Me: Ah yes what we have here is a classic case of "Parents of the chosen one" - parents of the chosen one, you are doomed either from the stupidity that your chosen one offspring WILL inherent or because you are probably for some inexpiable reason on the antagonists side.

The imperious thing is not about he had defence or something, the death eaters took a month maybe because the guy they tried to imperious was surrounded to many other mages or mental strength. Also remember Harry knows about the imperious because he was "trained" by Fake mad eye in book 4, and also resisted the imperious from Voldemort at the end of the book 4. Harry saying they were protected because the sacrifice of his mother means thanks to the sacrifice of his mother he was alive and he could save them, because he saved them by creating shield charms here and there, if he didn't use any charms for protect them, they would just died.

You know: when harry has his moment in the great hall, when he talks to voldemord, he just bluff. Like if he has a bed poker hand. Right before he walks the great hall, and protecs evearybody by his protection spell, whill under his invincebell cloath

For the love protection thing to happen the person who sacrificed themself had to be given a choice. Voldemort gave Lily a choice of living or dying and she chose to die, exact same with Harry

No discussion of the nonsense explanation about who is master of what wand? The entire book hinges on something that makes no logical sense.

I worry about her reading comprehension sometimes

Anybody else really upset that these are over? Ever since the first one was posted I got so excited and couldn't wait for the next one...

The killing curse is pretty rare, like it's an extremely difficult spell and highly illegal. Also knowing you're going to be murdered by it is even rarer, most people are just going to get it out of nowhere (Voldemort wouldn't have announced to Tom Riddle sr, I am going to kill you now, he just did it). On top of that, being spared by it would've been even rarer then that, James didn't count to the protect magic because Voldemort would have killed him anyway, but he genuinely would've killed him anyway, but he would've really spared Lily. And when we think magic is linked to thoughts and feelings, if someone jumped in front of the spell but the person casting it is like "whatever, I would've killed them next" then it wouldn't have counted. I can see how Harry and Lily was genuinely rare occasion that would not happen often at all, if ever.

I hear a lot of people saying that Lily & Harry died willingly while being given the chance to live and I agree with that. But here's an alternative. You said "if there was something special about Lily" but then Harry does it too. That doesn't sound like a problem. Lily is Harry' mother and if it was some special magic only she could perform it's possible she could pass it down to her son. A popular revolving MuggleBorns is that they are descended from Squibs, so what if this "special power" was a power a single wizarding bloodline had? The power to protect loved ones from killing curses by shielding them with your body. Then Harry would have it too and it would be unknown or mystical because the power died out with Lily's squib relative who died centuries ago.

The reasons Lilly and then harrys sacrifice protected people is solely because they both accepted their deaths without resistance. They both went to the death without fighting with wands. To my understanding that was the key difference. James attempted to fight back so when he was killed, he did not give protection to Lilly and baby harry.

For perishable foods, you wouldn’t want to replenish it too many times. Say you get a dozen eggs that will go bad in 10 days. At the end of the first day, you eat all the eggs but one. Then you replenish the one you have left so you have another dozen. But since you’re replenishing from an egg that had 9 days left before going bad, now all of your newly replenished eggs are exactly like that egg. They all only have 9 days left. If this continues, eventually the eggs will go bad. Did that make any sense? Idk if I explained that well.

If harry himself was a horcrox then wny didnt everyone emotionally connected to harry get affected

It's been pointed out before, but... Voldemort: "Avada..." Me: *bang* "Don't bring a spell to a gun fight." Death Eaters: "We have you now." Me: "Accio Grenade" There was also that demon in Buffy that had this great line that no weapon forged by men could harm him. For their second fight Buffy had acquired a rocket launcher. As she tells him before blowing him away: "That was then, this is now."

I am pretty sure that the Fidelius charm was created after they got to shell cottage because Ron got caught out of the Weasley’s house with Harry, before that they weren’t as much in danger but after Ron was caught with Harry they were worried about the ministry coming after them.

Beeing his own secret keeper should be considered a plot hole