Harry Potter Is Like Star Wars In That, In Its Original Incarnation, You Aren't Supposed To Think About

Harry Potter is like Star Wars in that, in its original incarnation, you aren't supposed to think about it, its world is a pastiche meant to provide suitable aesthetics for a simple and fun adventure story. And at that task it succeeded so thoroughly that it attracted a lot of people who wanted to think about it, and in its later incarnations it seems that its creators want to too. But this was a doomed thing from the start because it wasn't designed for that and was never going to succeed at it.