HP simply romanticises the British private boarding school experience by giving it wands, for Americans who don't understand the cultural context, and British people who aspire for that level of elitism.

I wanna see the real Harry Potter experience, where Harry is put in a bin and rolled down a hill by Malfoy, and the school does nothing because his dad donates shitloads of cash to the school, or with Hagrid caught wanking outside the Griffendor girls dorm room window, but the school also does nothing because its just 'banter'.