Or you could just read "magic" as "magic".
And then JK Rowling weaves a tale about how the top students are pushed into becoming professors or cogs in a bureaucracy that serves the primary purpose of concealing the existence of magic. But it is really the "magical" people who run the show, but they conceal it, and look down on the rest.
It is an utterly fantastical tale, for children, and has nothing to do with reality. Some children dress up as the characters in the tale. Some adults do too. They are LARPers. It is all for fun. It is completely different from reality.
In reality, "top" students go to schools where God is dead. They learn about the shifting matrices of power, and about oppression, and privilege, and it is always a little bit unclear who exactly is more privileged than others, but you better not slip up if you want to maintain your position. Don't study too much Western civilization, or others might think you're a racist. Or if you do study Western civilization, make it about food and sex and transgressing boundaries, and you can maintain your position and feel a little superior to the suckers.
Some intelligent and educated sorts try to fight back, some silently and some even overtly, against the ridiculous ideologues and malcontents pushing this nonsense and rotting civilization from within. It seems ridiculous that shrieking blue-haired feminists could have so much power. Some will mock them and their associates, and others will try to unravel their reasoning, and if it is not permisable to do it in public, some do it online. They are baffled by the internal inconsistencies of their opponents: if a man "becomes" a woman, is he then more or less oppressed than an actual woman? There is no answer to this, and the educated person thinks that this will soon surely become evident to all, right?
But - is it so? - all of the crazy malcontents and dour ideologues are just tools. They are all just cogs in a massive machine that serves to conceal what those with real power are doing in the dark. Nobody really wants to live in the Soviet Union, not even as ruler. But if you get to do evil deeds and be protected by magical forces… well that sounds kind of exciting!
To sum things up, I'm suggesting that, on the one hand, the entire Harry Potter phenomenon is set up to fix the belief that the entire idea of "magical" things (whether "real" or simply "believed") playing a role in the highest levels of power is utterly absurd, the sort of thing children or adults can have fun with, but something not to be taken seriously at all. But at the same time it reveals the truth about our entire educational system: it really IS set up to conceal the fact that those with real power are actually occultists. People think that SJWism (or whatever you want to call it) is the real enemy, and while it does serve to undermine civilization, most of those pushing it are simply tools. All of the talk of "intersectionality", "cisgenderism", "privilege", blah blah blah is total bullshit, pushed by those with real power even as they mock it.
Now I feel like a REAL internet conspiracy theorist!
Thanks for the clue Anon: >>732278
Sauce: https://eidolon.pub/up-to-no-good-a14e7194771f
http://archive.is/lbRSa
(Donna Zuckerberg runs that site. She is not a ditz, she just plays one for the internet.)