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by 0cf8612b2e1e 638 days ago
Acknowledging it is a children’s book…

I take significantly bigger issue with the lack of societal change from having magic. Way too much of wizard society was “Muggles + occasional party tricks”. When you can conjure food, water, automatons, etc from nothing, nature of living would change completely.

You can brew luck? I would be mainlining that stuff every day. Time travel is given to children? Why is there a train when there are a dozen different ways of magicking yourself around the world?

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality touched on these inconsistencies.