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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand all the Harry Potter responses. I don’t feel like the Harry Potter series is appropriate for 6 year olds. [/quote]

It's definitely not. My 8 year old can read HP, but is a little hesitant because she thinks some of the content is too scary. When it comes up, I still encourage her to wait a bit longer to start the series. Just because they can, doesn't mean they should. Both because of the content, and because of the gap in comprehension. They'll get a lot more out of it if they wait until they're more mature. [/quote]

If they are like my kids they’ll read them hundreds of times between 6 and 16, so if they miss things the first time it doesn’t matter.[/quote]

The first few books are also not that scary. The first 3 books, and especially 1 and 2, are written to a level that early elementary kids can understand and will not find too scary. Actually, at that age my kid was totally unfazed by the kind of fantasy elements you find in the first Harry Potter (a troll is loose in the school, a wizard is trying to steal a stone that makes you live forever, a goofy caretaker discovers dragons don't make good pets). But I remember trying to read the book Fringle to my kid in 1st grade and she made us stop because the idea of kids who seemed realistic and familiar trying to test a strict teacher hit too close to home for her -- it was like her worst nightmare come to life (she's a huge rule follower and hates being scolded by authority figures). Harry Potter was not scary to her -- it was exciting and fun.

I would not let a kid under around 3rd grade read past book 4. I think it would be too upsetting for kids that age to read about the deaths in those books, and there's also a teacher who is straight up abusing children and a lot of scary political themes about fascism. I think those subjects all require a kid mature enough to be able to discuss those real life subjects, and the vast majority of 1st and 2nd graders can't do that.[/quote]

Sure. But my 8 year old is afraid of death so the idea of dead parents for Harry would be very disturbing for her. [/quote]

My almost 8yo doesn’t want to read them or watch the movies yet either. He knows enough about them and thinks they’d be scary.  I was reading home the lion, the witch and the wardrobe and he asked me to stop reading a couple chapters into that one too.[/quote]

+1. My 8 year old doesn't want to watch the movies or read the books yet either. Lots of gore in other books she reads (Wings of Fire, anyone?), but I think it's too easy for kids to imagine themselves AS Harry Potter to separate it mentally like in other stories. YMMV.[/quote]

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