May be preservation charms don't work on copied edibles? They probably had problems with keeping it all fresh.
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If you think too hard, the setting breaks on its own back.
If it's just that preservation charms make it unable to be duplicated; Hermione and Harry were stupid not to consider any of a dozen muggle ways to preserve food, including home canned, store bought tins, dried, smoked...
No magic at all to interfere with duplication charms.
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Would Harry know his mundane foods better than Hermione? I'm unsure how canon 'did a lot of cooking for the Durselys' was.
Also, a mundane camping fridge/freezer wouldn't seem impossible? Some run on propane/butane gas, and with a little care no electronics that conflicted with magic sounds feasible. Odds are some first gen wizards are well-up on these sorts of details...
Of course, effective/comfortable camping is an art in itself...
Beg to disagree... Do you think Taylor was anything other than a Hero, trying her best to do the Right Thing, in her own mind?
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I'm thinking that they were planning to use Grimmauld as a base to operate from, since they unknowingly break the taboo a couple of times but the DEs did not see the house, even though the Fidelius must have been down with Dumbledore's death.
Unfortunately, their escape from the Ministry threw a wrench on those plans when they apparated out with Yaxley holding onto them so they had to emergency apparate again, which is why Ron got splinched.
I think that if Ron wasn't with them, maybe they could have gone to another non-magical town and buy some of what they needed before the Locket started affecting them, although they only had Hermione's money since Harry didn't get anything from his own vault to help out (whether he didn't think of it or the Weasley parents or the Order interfered in some way I cannot say).
Duplicating food with magic probably works like making a photocopy. There is always a bit of degradation (mental or physical fatigue, visualization, power channeled) which affects the food in some way, to the point where there is a hard limit to how many times you can do it.
Since Taylor has not been indoctrinated by Hogwarts to think only of magical solutions to solve problems (even Hermione starts to suffer a bit of this in the last two books), she can probably come up different solutions to destroy the soul anchors if basilisk venom or the sword are not available. After all, the books Hermione had said that to destroy the object you must damage beyond magical repair. I'm sure she can come up with mundane solutions that can overpower the protections.
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Thermite might be a good place to start? Cheap, easy to make, and if that doesn't work, step-up to an ocy-hydrogen torch?
Recall that Harry, Ron and Hermione are #1-3 on the Voldemort-controlled Ministry's list of most wanted. How the fuck can they wander down Diagon Alley to get to Gringotts? Assuming they can trust the Goblins not to turn them over to the Ministry, since if the Goblins would, they can't get to their vaults anyway.
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Yeah by the time they knew they were going to be on the run it was too late to head to the bank to get money. Voldemort had already taken over the ministry and Diagon Alley was probably his first target to lock down.
You can argue that perhaps they should have planned ahead of time but frankly none of the Trio are particularly competent at that except Hermione who did pack the tents. And the Order was mainly following Dumbledore lead so with his death they were confused and had no clear leader or plans yet.
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I was thinking more during the period before the wedding, when Scrimgeour was still the Minister. That was the point Harry could have gone to the bank or send Tonks there with his key. Now, maybe the Battle of the 7 Potters made them wary of going to Diagon, but everyone still thought that the trio would be going back to Hogwarts at the end of the summer, so...
I would assume that he didn't go because at that point the plan was "Normal Summer" so he could have stopped at Gringotts first during the usual shopping trip before school. Hence he didn't need a trip specifically to Gringotts to get money at that point, and even if he had, he wouldn't have withdrawn enough for food for 3 people for the best part of a year.