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Some people feel it's wierd or anti-religious that they make stories out of witchcraft/wizardry... but I think the underlying messages I get from the book are
1. Confront Evil even when those around you would rather pretend it isn't there.
2. Make a world that is good, happy, and safe for children
Maybe i"m reading too much into them, but those are the messages I get from it, and why I actually consider them "Conservative" books.

This, from a couple of folks I know at Wizards of the Coast:

Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary behind the Pokemon card game and Dungeons and Dragons, desired to obtain the Harry Potter role playing game license. A couple of the game designers put together a presentation and some sample bits, and flew to the UK to pitch the idea to Rowling.

They got maybe five minutes in before she said something to the effect of: "Wait, you want to make a Harry Potter Dungeons and Dragons game? But that game is occultic and evil!"

Knowing the flack she takes on the very same score, they nearly fell out of their chairs. Needless to say, they went home empty-handed (which is a shame, because these folks would have done a fantastic job with it).

"Some people feel it's wierd or anti-religious that they make stories out of witchcraft/wizardry".

Well that's the same group of people who find fairytales evil....though the "left" has it's fairytale detractors too. They'll point to the stereotypical role assignment as sexist, classist or racist.
Tales in the fairy realm, always deal with transformation and progression of the human state. The moral and ethical road, is the true course of redemption, the other course always ends in annihilation.
An estoteric interpretation allows that each character is but a facet of the human condition, which must integrate for survival, while slaying the inner dragon. In that sense, everyone is both King, fool,child, dragon etc.

Maybe i"m reading too much into them, but those are the messages I get from it, and why I actually consider them "Conservative" books.

So do I. She demolishes a certain type of socialist-educrat thinking with her Professor Umbrage. Also what got me was that one of the O.W.L.S. exam questions concerned whether "wand legislation" helped or hurt goblin riots. Of couse, it wasn't answered but just asking it implies that there may be another view to the matter than the assumed anti-conservative one.

Another very conservative writer is Dean Koontz. He rips Gray Davis big time in "One Door Away From Heavan"

Maybe i"m reading too much into them, but those are the messages I get from it, and why I actually consider them "Conservative" books.

Some more aspects that make them very conservative:

Everyone, including teens, are at all times armed with lethal weapons (the wands). The younger wizards are taught non-lethal offensive tactics(stun spells) and defensive disarming tactics in "Defense Against the Dark Arts" class
Governmental officials are depicted as mostly either incompetent, corrupt, or actually undercover evil wizards who have infiltrated the power structure
The above results in Harry Potter and company having to take direct, independent action against the bad guys, bypassing the wizardly law enforcement apparatus
The elder Weasley brothers are entrepreneurs par-excellence, who (in the latest book, "Order of the Pheonix") forego going into wizard civil service to open up their own business
When the wizard government(in "Pheonix") appoints an overseer in Hogwarts to keep a lid on things, and put a stop to any further talk about evil bad guys having infiltrated wizard society, and the administrator tries to disarm the students and put a stop to their getting training in self-defense, the teens finally have to form their own underground militia group to go after the bad guys

All-in-all, a very right-wing-subversive series