Parents need to know that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth book in J.K. Plus they mine disturbing memories of when Voldemort was younger, how he killed many, including his own father, and hanged a rabbit and tortured other children at the orphanage.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. News that a 5-year-old was attacked and killed by a werewolf, of a bridge collapse that killed many. Much talk about others killed or who have disappeared, some were minor characters in past books. A student is pulled out of class, told that her parents have been killed. News is always bad in the wizarding world with Voldemort back. Another adult is nearly poisoned and hallucinates, screaming out in fear. House elves also fight and knock out teeth. A student is cursed and almost dies, others are attacked and injured in a battle with wands and magic, another is nearly poisoned to death, and when students fight each other there's a broken nose and cuts that are magically healed. Reanimated dead creatures called inferi attack in a frightening scene in a cave. There's the death and heartbreaking funeral of a major character. Some negative language around the size of Dudley and his father, Malfoy's Slytherin friends Crabbe and Goyle, plus Professor Slughorn is described as "enormously fat," and a witch named Hepzibah Smith is described as an "immensely fat old lady." Women have prominent roles at Hogwarts: Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout are both heads of houses, plus there are plenty of girls on the Quidditch house teams. Some diverse family structures are described: Harry lives with his aunt and uncle, Neville with his grandmother, and memories of Tom Riddle show him in an orphanage. Characters in the wizarding world face lots of discrimination, especially for not being "pure-blood," or in Hagrid's case, for being part-giant. Cho Chang and the Patil twins are more minor characters in this book, but still around. So is Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Order of the Phoenix. A Slytherin named Blaise Zabini is Black.
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