You can’t really expect people to act normally in games. In reality, people don’t kill others as easily as in a game since there are consequences such as imprisonment and even the threat of death to oneself. Here, there is no reason to not kill the VIP since Harry Potter would never have to face the consequences of…

I’ve been to Japan and that’s the normal price for the plushies in the Pokémon Centers. I guess they just brought over the price to America. :(