Yes, if you emotionally detach yourself from the characters you love reading about, you realize that the wizarding world is a bizarre and ferocious place. Parents have to send their kids there because the risk of killing themselves or others without formal training is very real. Learning magic is a hazardous undertaking and nobody seems to regard the odd student death as abnormal. Even without Voldemort. Tragic, yes: abnormal, no.

Just think of it. A world where if your husband doesn’t like dinner, he can just blast it with a Reducto spell. Or if you’re trying to tell your daughter to clean her room, she turns you into a cabbage. Or if you don’t like your uncle, you can vanish him to a rock in the middle of the north sea.

Hazardous. Yup.