Rating: 4
Summary: Harry Potter is famous. He doesn't remember what he's famous for. All he knows is that when he was a baby, his parents were killed by You-Know-Who, and then he tried to kill baby Harry- but something went wrong for the Dark Lord. Harry survived the killing curse, and You-Know-Who hasn't been seen in the past ten years. Eleven year old Harry Potter joins the wizarding world, and enters Hogwarts where mystery, danger, and trouble follow Harry everywhere he turns.
Language: There is the occasional 'd' word throughout the series, and the 'b' word in the last book
Sexual content: The seven books span over a time of seven years, so by the last books they are seventeen years old. In book four, Harry has a crush on a girl named Cho Chang, and in the fifth book they go on an awkward date for Valentine's Day. In the sixth book, both Harry and Ron get girlfriends. Both of them mention making out with their girlfriends.
Violence and gore: First of all, Harry goes through a lot of nightmarish pain throughout the series. He has been through so much pain that he couldn't move, and he screams, and thrashes about. All of this pain is inflicted by the use of magic. Through the series, the scene where his parents died is shown a few times. A man turns into a werewolf, Harry is stabbed by a huge fang, and Harry accidentally casts a spell which gives the victim slashes all over his body. Several people die throughout the series, and Hermione is tortured in book seven.
Magic: Yes, this is Harry Potter, and there is magic in it. Whether you read about magic or not, is your own personal conviction between you and the Lord.
Morals: These books take place in a school, with ordinary children who have magic, so these books teach a lot about just regular everyday life lessons. They learn about friendship, bravery, love, forgiveness, the value of hard work, and not to judge others just like every other normal kid. Also, it teaches against prejudice, racism, it deals with aids, abuse, depression, PTSD, loss, innocence, and betrayal. Also, many people- including J. K. Rowling herself- has stated that Harry Potter is a parallel to Adolf Hitler and World War 2. Voldemort is meant to be Adolf Hitler, and the series examines what a world under Adolf Hitler would have been like, and what soldiers fought for and endured to not let Adolf Hitler take over.
Other: In book seven, Harry Potter finds out that he has to die if he wants Voldemort to die (very long and complicated reasons, you'd have to read the books). So, Harry goes to Voldemort, to face his inevitable death, and Voldemort casts the killing curse on him. Everyone thinks Harry is dead, including Harry himself, when he wakes up in a pure white world which looks like King's Cross Station. Harry finds out that he is not dead, but he can choose to die then and there if he wants, or he can return to his home. Harry chooses to return home. I just thought I would put this here, so that you would know. No, Harry Potter did not rise from the dead- however it may look like he had, if you don't read the books (the movies don't explain it very well).
Note: The series progressively gets darker and darker. It was written in the course of a decade, and the readers- along with the characters- kept getting older, so the story got darker. The first three books, I would say is appropriate for the ages between ten and twelve, but depending on how scared the child gets, the other four books shouldn't be read until around thirteen or fourteen years old.
Neutral, 13-14 years old, fantasy
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