Is magic overpowered?

[MisterBobbyPin]

I seem to have a problem with magic. It just always seems situational to me and authors always seem to use it lazily.  Does anyone else have this problem?

[Judel]

Can you give some examples of what you mean?  I don't tend to read books with magic, and none of my characters have dealt with it.

[Bloom]

How do writers use magic lazily?  Do you mean they use it as a catch all solution to any problem the main character needs a solution for?

[Shortie]

The only books I would have ever read that contained magic were the Harry Potter books and I do not feel that the magic in those was used lazily but that it was used and written quite well for the story.