I wouldn’t expect Wizards to be big fans of birth control or abortion.
Are you assuming vaguely medieval tech = Catholic = opposed to birth control and abortion?
The Catholic Church didn’t declare that all abortion was murder until the Renaissance, and I don’t think there’s any reason to think that wizards are generally Catholics. ETA Nor is there any reason to think that Catholics are reliably obedient to Popes.
The simplest explanation might be that wizards (like Tolkien’s elves, but less so) just aren’t very fertile.
It does, a little bit. I think there’s one church service, seen from the outside, and some important grave—Harry’s parents? -- has a quotation from the New Testament on it. (“The last enemy to be defeated is death”, which of course plenty of not-at-all-religious people would have much sympathy with.) But yes, religion in the UK tends to be rather less conspicuous than in the US.
‘Fanon’ generally assumes there are relatively simple and well known contraceptive spells, and given the known abilities of magic that would seem a fairly easy thing to create.
Are you assuming vaguely medieval tech = Catholic = opposed to birth control and abortion?
The Catholic Church didn’t declare that all abortion was murder until the Renaissance, and I don’t think there’s any reason to think that wizards are generally Catholics. ETA Nor is there any reason to think that Catholics are reliably obedient to Popes.
The simplest explanation might be that wizards (like Tolkien’s elves, but less so) just aren’t very fertile.
Church of England, surely.
As an American I can tell you confidently that the wizards and witches of magical Britain have one quality above all others: they are British.
This would explain why religion never comes up in canon.
It does, a little bit. I think there’s one church service, seen from the outside, and some important grave—Harry’s parents? -- has a quotation from the New Testament on it. (“The last enemy to be defeated is death”, which of course plenty of not-at-all-religious people would have much sympathy with.) But yes, religion in the UK tends to be rather less conspicuous than in the US.
‘Fanon’ generally assumes there are relatively simple and well known contraceptive spells, and given the known abilities of magic that would seem a fairly easy thing to create.