

Scanner is technically the same, it just bounces light off the object, rather than shining through it.
Hell 3D scanning is pretty cool and what I’d consider high tech, but it’s still just bouncing waves off things and recording those!
I guess there’s no escaping the universal fundamentals, or the limits of our technology at least





Not necessarily. HP is just written with a soft magic system.
I quite like the Light Lightbringer series, which has a hard magic system.
It’s so much more fun for me to read about creative ways of magic to be used when it’s based on physics of the world it’s in, when I could theorise about what’s possible and be amazed by the characters’ ingenuity.