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(#7) A Boggart Could Wipe Out The Planet
Boggarts are well-known magical creatures that have the ability to turn into a person’s greatest fear, regardless of what it is. Although it has been said that they aren’t as powerful as their genuine counterparts, they still have powers that are comparable (if slightly weakened).
This means that if a person was afraid of some great catastrophe, like an erupting volcano or meteor strike, they could cause serious damage to the planet. It's even possible for someone to have a black hole as their biggest fear, meaning if they ever came in contact with a boggart they would inadvertently consume the entire Earth.
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(#14) Wizards Are Stuck In The Technological Dark Age
Part of the initial appeal of the Harry Potter series for readers and viewers is how the wizarding world appears to maintain a focus on tradition. They write with quills and parchment, send messages via owls, and use a medieval castle for their school. Although this might seem charming or quaint, the magic abilities they possess have essentially stymied witches and wizards in the Dark Ages. They are stuck in a technological rut and rely completely on magic for all of their needs.
This serves them well enough for the most part, but it means they miss out on things like email and the internet - things that could revolutionize their world and allow them to communicate far more easily. They also seem to be blissfully unaware of the technology of Muggles, putting them in danger if a conflict ever broke out. They're wildly vulnerable to threats that they don’t understand.
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(#12) Wizards Completely Refuse To Help Muggles Despite The Good They Could Do
There is some rather evident hostility between the wizarding world and the rest of human society, perhaps due to some type of persecution of magic users or a war between the two cultures. However, it seems completely thoughtless and downright evil for witches and wizards to straight-up abandon the rest of humankind.
The Statute of Secrecy effectively bans the use of magic to help Muggles when they could, in fact, solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Famine and drought could be prevented easily with teleportation techniques, diseases could be cured using magical spells, and humanity as a whole could advance through the joint efforts of technology and magic. Yet the Ministry of Magic and its foreign counterparts simply ignore Muggles and refuse to help them in any way.
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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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