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[quote=Anonymous] It totally depends on your child's personality - all the books have violent and scary parts to them, and the later books have teen angst and teen attraction in them. My son read them by himself starting at 6 years old, while also viewing the movies, and I got him to read other things in between (such as The Hobbit) so that he finished the series at 8. Our principal said at one of the parent meetings that young children reading HP wasn't such a great thing - that many concepts flew over their heads. What she was really worried about was parents pushing their children, probably. Personally, I think she couldn't be more wrong. I was an advanced reader, like my son, and liked nothing more than to re-read my favorite books and discover new layers of meaning to them. Even without re-reading, children remember scenes from stories they have read or have been read, and can process them years later with the hindsight of a more mature brain. So go ahead, OP![/quote]
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