I'd like to see a more realistic relationship between the wizard world and the muggle world in general. Hagrid tells Harry wizards have to keep their existence secret from muggles or "They might want magical solutions to their problems!" Well, what's wrong with that? In muggle society we have all kinds of highly trained, educated and talented problem-solvers; we call them professionals: Doctors, lawyers, accountants, scientists, engineers, social workers, teachers, military officers, police detectives. Wizards could simply be another professional category, offering their services to the public and being rewarded with money and status and respect.
But, that would make it a completely different kind of story.
It's also odd, come to think of it, that wizards, unlike practically every muggle culture in history, don't seem to have any religion of any kind. They celebrate Christian holidays and Harry has a "godfather," but Hogwarts (unlike a real-life British public school) has no chapel, and there are no churches or temples or priests or preachers anywhere in the wizarding world. Wizards don't even have gods of their own, nor spiritual belief-systems even of an atheistic kind like (some forms of) Buddhism. But, maybe Rowling just wanted to avoid that whole hornet's nest; she came in for enough religious-conservative criticism as it is.
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