Also, from what Harry knows about how magic works, if a dark wizard expected himself to have a soul and created a dark ritual to anchor it to an object and avoid death, magic could plausibly just make him a “soul” for the occasion.
Brooms working by Aristotelian physics and aguamenti are also a giveaway that magic doesn’t care how the universe would ordinarily work.
Also, from what Harry knows about how magic works, if a dark wizard expected himself to have a soul and created a dark ritual to anchor it to an object and avoid death, magic could plausibly just make him a “soul” for the occasion.
Brooms working by Aristotelian physics and aguamenti are also a giveaway that magic doesn’t care how the universe would ordinarily work.