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(#13) People Are Trapped Forever In Paintings
The idea of having people essentially come back to life as painting after they die might seem charming, but the consequences are both obvious and horrifying. After all, the people in these paintings appear to have all the same memories and personalities from when they were alive. The only difference is that they are trapped indefinitely within a two-dimensional plane of existence, only able to travel between other pictures.
Worse, they're actually forced to do the bidding of the living. People charge them with guarding rooms or passing messages between different areas, all without a fleeting thought as to whether the person in the painting wants to do these tasks. It would be like bringing a family member back from the grave only to have them run errands for you. Forever.
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(#9) The Broken Education System Leaves Students Woefully Unprepared For The World
The education that magical folk receive during their formative years leaves a lot to be desired. Forget for a moment that most wizarding families don’t send their kids to school before they head off to Hogwarts, apparently letting them just kind of hang out at home until they're 11, but even the highly regarded magic school lacks most basic educational tenants.
While at Hogwarts, children are not taught mathematics, reading and writing, sex education, biology, or really any science. Instead, they are educated about magical powers and the history of wizards, neglecting everything else needed to create well-rounded people. Hogwarts is basically a trumped-up vocational school that wouldn't pass even the most elementary educational certification in our world. For real, can Ron do multiplication? Or like, read?
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(#5) The Name Of The Killing Curse Suggests Wizards Killed Lots And Lots Of Muggles
The Killing Curse is one of the three Unforgivable Curses that are forbidden because of the damage they can cause to other living things. However, its name suggests an even darker history for the spell. The incantation, Avada Kedavra, is remarkably similar to the Muggle word "abracadabra."
This is the only "real" magical word that non-magic users are aware of, and it seems to be a corruption of the curse. Many fans speculate that this means the spell was used to take out so many people that it became ingrained in Muggle culture.
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(#3) Wizard Trials Are A Complete Sham And Not About Justice At All
In order to sentence people and dish out justice in the world of Harry Potter, the magic users have a court called the Wizengamot. Made up of some of the most powerful people in the world, the court decides whether a person is guilty and punishes them accordingly.
Unfortunately, they don’t make use of any of the magical items, spells, or potions that could help them to definitively get to the truth, instead relying on less credible evidence. While the truth serum veritaserum isn’t totally foolproof, it would almost certainly lead to fewer people being found guilty of acts they didn’t commit and assist in finding the real culprits, yet it is never used by the court. They also rarely look into people's memories, which seems weird for a society that keeps constant tabs on all of its citizens. The Wizengamot, therefore, is clearly a kangaroo court designed to keep the powerful in power.
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(#6) Magical Society Loves Putting Children In Danger Constantly
Obviously, it's impossible to eliminate all threats and sources of danger from a child’s life. As we know from our world, it just never works. However, the government in Harry Potter seems perfectly willing to put its children at severe risk, all the time, for seemingly no reason.
For example, myriad risky spells and potions are taught at Hogwarts with seemingly little protection or adult oversight. Meanwhile, children are encouraged to play Quidditch, a sport that has players and equipment specifically designed to injure participants. Then, there is the insurance nightmare that is the Triwizard Tournament. This government-sanctioned competition is advertised as extremely dangerous, and those involved can (and sometimes do) easily lose their lives by the various monsters and dragons that make up the "tasks."
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