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 The difficult thing about the Harry Potter series is it gets darker and darker as the books go along.  When the books were coming out, there was enough time between books for kids to mature and be ready for the next book, but if you start your kids on the first book when they are just mature enough for it, they will want to read all of the books, but likely won't be mature enough for the later books.  I found it a little difficult deciding when was the right time to introduce them, but it has been done and they enjoyed them. 
 Meanwhile they’re playing horror games on Roblox 😂 yea I get that. I bet when Harry and Cho kiss my son will make vomiting noises. 
 The first book had stuff in it I felt a little uncomfortable reading to them. Hagrids drinking for instance and all the “kill him” from Voldemort in front of the mirror of erised… but you gotta learn about death at some point and they’re already aware of it because of great grandparents passing away in the last year/few years. I read a chapter a night at the moment, but could space it out a bit more as we get deeper into the series. Or we could take a break and switch to another series when it starts to get really dark.