And Sciencemama, for what it's worth, I let my DS (heading into first) finish the HP series. Did your daughter end up reading them all? How did it go? It didn't seem to bother my ds at all, but I think he may have just read more superficially when it was disturbing. He seemed most disturbed by Dolores Unbridge in one of the middle books. Actually, come to think of it, I think that was the most disturbing part for me as well!