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Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Slavery, Death of parent
Minor: Alcoholism
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Bullying, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Fatphobia, Incest, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, War
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol
Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, War
Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol
Although the book is obviously extremely dark and sad, there are a lot of key elements to this book that are majorly important. We get to meet the lovely Professor Umbridge! I will stand by the fact that she is worse than Voldemort, HA! She is quite literally the worst character in this franchise — I have never hated a character more than I hate her! She is a superb villain though, and this book does an amazing job at making me seethe whenever she is in a scene, complete with her obnoxious little cough. I do love the way that the other professors react to her though, especially Professor McGonagall. We also of course love the centaurs, obviously.
I do love that we get more insight into Snape’s past and the reasoning behind his deep hatred of Harry. However, this does open another can of worms for me with my opinion on Snape. Specifically, that exact hatred of poor Harry for something that his father did to him…but I will not go into that! Regardless, it is a great part of the story and it adds a lot of depth to Snape’s character development, so I do appreciate it.
Of course there is one part of this book that I will never be able to get over and if you know, you know. I will not discuss it here, but I swear I will never recover from it.
This book does a fantastic job with its storytelling and setting the reader up for the rest of the series. I am excited to read Half Blood Prince next and to continue being at Hogwarts at the peak of all of the chaos! I rate this book 5/5 stars! 🌟
Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Violence, Death of parent
Minor: Torture
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail