Does having magic make things easier?
“If everyone were given a wand …,” she started. (Spotting one fan with a wand, she pointed to him and added as an aside, “You’ve already got one! I hope that’s not trained on me!”) “… The world would be strangely similar,” she continued. “Because nearly everyone, and not just because you’re Harry Potter fans, would want to use it for good, to have fun, to look after their friends and family. But a small number would think, ‘What’s in it for me?’ And that’s the dark side of human nature, which remains the same whether you have a wand or not. We’d have exactly the same problems. Cruelty. Bigotry. Oppression. That’s what Harry’s fighting against. Not magic.
