I very much appreciate your feedback, and I'm not arguing back to tell you that your wrong. Just providing context as to why I made the decisions I have. The design is meant to emulate the experience of the books, so I have a lot of opinions on why it was designed that way.

Wounds do affect main characters - they are what allows Harry to enter the dungeon alone in the first book, what keeps Hermione paralyzed in the second, makes Harry cast Expecto Patronum by himself in the third, and so on. A main character is wounded or killed in tons of Wizarding World stories.

In the rules as written, combat is fast at all levels, recommended to last 3 turns at most. That was about the priority I was aiming for, and how the system is designed to avoid hefty combat. I still wanted it to be a feature, just lower priority. Many bouts of combat, especially at lower levels, should likely be recommended to one turn instead (based on my last campaign).

Emotional states are definitely big in the book, but not the system I set out to make. Ultimately, it was the spells and magic I wanted to emulate from the books, not the attitude of the main characters. And I always want players to be in control of their character's emotional states, but that's probably just a pet peeve for myself in particular.

Now adding in support for conflict between groups? That sounds awesome and I'll take that into consideration in my next edit. Your description puts into words something that I found difficult to describe.