Harry Potter 3rd book - suitable for 7 year olds?

[ramonaquimby]

dd has just whizzed through the first 2 Harry Potter books (I re-read them as she did just to make sure they were suitable, has been a few years since I've read them) and now she has started on the 3rd one - I can't remember content - will she be spooked out? She's in year 2

ooh... dd1 also in year 2 has read to 4 and isn't spooked out.

She's now clamouring for a trip to the library for number 5.

I had heard the books get much darker throughout the series (have only read the first , but i think any potentially upsetting bits will go over their heads at this age (hopeful).

Sorry crap typing with baby wrestling keyboard

It depends on the 7 year old really.

My DS 7 would have nightmares for months if he read it.

I know she wrote them to be read by children the age of Harry as he grew up through the books, but equally I know friends children who have read them all at ages 7 and upand been fine.

ds [yr reception]found the third one fine

My dd is 8 and read it and found it troubling so we are not reading the rest for a while.

thanks everyone

The fourth is a big jump up from 3rd and the rest get tougher. but they can be appreciated at many levels as was pointed out with a recent conversation with my sister (23yo) who missed the more sinster aspects of the later books. It hadn't even occured to her they weren't just a nice story to read. Ex had to be taken for a coffee after the last film it worried him so much on some aspects. bless

Depends on the child (or adult).