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# Is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows too scary for young children?
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## Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the most adult Potter adventure
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yet. Sarah Crompton watches the reactions of her two children, aged 13 and 10.
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[Harry Potter: the story so far][3]
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[Deathly Hallows Part 1 trailer][5]
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[Harry Potter sneak peek][6]
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[Radcliffe: ending Potter made me cry][8]
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[Link to this video][9]
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By Sarah Crompton 9:24AM GMT 19 Nov 2010
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[Comments][10]
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Friends have been asking just how dark and disturbing Harry Potter and The
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Deathly Hallows really is. They've got children of eight or nine, who are
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desperate to see the latest instalment in their favourite saga, but they are
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worried that the scenes of torture and death the movie contains may prove too
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strong and scary for their little ones.
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The certificate of 12A isn't necessarily that much help, since it is the most
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wide-reaching of all the certificates, and one which puts the onus fair and
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square on parental judgement. The BBFC's excellent online site
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[www.bbfc.co.uk][11] contains a thorough and extended explanation of why it
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has made this judgement, however. (Let me warn you,, that there are some plot
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spoilers in what follows.)
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It points out that it has been classed 12A (rather than PG) for "moderate
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fantasy violence and threat", explaining that "there are ...some stronger
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moments of violence which include some detail, particularly of injuries
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sustained by characters, with sight of blood and realistic-looking wounds.
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These include the word 'mudblood' shown in bloody scratches on Hermione's
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forearm after she has been tortured off-screen."
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It goes on to explain that "In terms of moderate threat, the film possesses a
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fairly dark and intense tone, in common with many of the more recent
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instalments of Harry Potter. Although few sequences are particularly
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prolonged, some of them possess a level of intensity that takes them beyond
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the 'PG' category, including a sequence very near the start of the film where
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Miss Burbage is tormented by Voldemort and the sequence where it is implied
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Hermione is being tortured off-screen by Bellatrix. ...Being the first part of
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a two-part adventure, there is a notable lack of a reassuring resolution and
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certainly no happy ending."
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Which just about sums it up. What I can add to that is that watching the film
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with a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old, neither was particularly disturbed by
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the unpleasant scenes, which really are fleeting and carefully handled. The
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whole business of Voldemort is, obviously, pretty scary - and there are a
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couple of scenes where his snake Nagini appears which had all of us watching
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through our fingers.
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## Related Articles
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* [Harry Potter in full][12]
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11 Nov 2010
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* [Harry Potter DVD box set offer][13]
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18 Nov 2010
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* [Daniel Radcliffe on the Deathly Hallows][14]
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18 Nov 2010
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* [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows][15]
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18 Nov 2010
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* [Emma Watson on the Deathly Hallows][16]
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18 Nov 2010
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* [Rupert Grint on the Deathly Hallows][17]
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18 Nov 2010
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But that was in a good way. We expected to be slightly frightened and we were.
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Though if your children are the kind who carry their film-going into their
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nightmares then you might want to make a different decision.
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As far as I am concerned, nothing in any of the Potter films is more
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terrifying than the moment in Mike Newell's Harry Potter and the Goblet of
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Fire where Voldemort comes back from the dead and we see his ferocious form
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for the first time. At that moment, as he kills Cedric Diggory (poor old
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Robert Pattinson) and began to fight Harry with all his wicked might, we all
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went under our seats.
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If your children have survived that, then The Deathly Hallows is a relatively
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safe choice for you.
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## [Harry Potter][12]
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* ### [Culture »][22]
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* ### [Film »][23]
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* ### [Film Blog »][24]
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In culture
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[![][25] ][26]
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### [Harry Potter part 2 stills][26]
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[![Harry Potter costume designer accused of copying ALexander McQueen
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dress][27] ][28]
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### [Harry Potter costume designer accused of stealing Alexander McQueen
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design][28]
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[![Daniel Radcliffe, left, Rupert Grint, center, and Emma Watson in a scene
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from 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.': How success cast its spell
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on Harry Potter star][29] ][13]
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### [Harry Potter DVD box set offer][13]
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[![Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 ][30] ][31]
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### [Ralph Fiennes interview - exclusive][31]
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