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Parents need to know that Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first book in J.K. Baby dragons drink a mixture of brandy and chicken blood.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Witches drink sherry, and someone smokes a long pipe at a wizard bar. Vernon Dursley is served brandy after a trying day.

At another time Hagrid carries and drinks from a flask, and at Christmas dinner he drinks heavily and kisses Professor McGonagall on the cheek. Hagrid mentions having way too much to drink one night and giving away a dangerous secret. Flashback to the (bloodless) deaths of Harry's parents and much discussion about how they died and the one who killed them.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Talk of Harry's childhood with his Muggle family, how his cousin bullied and hit him and his aunt and uncle neglected him. Mostly friendly ghosts roam the halls the ghost Nearly Headless Nick shows how he got the name. Some minor injuries: a dragon bite that swells up and a broken wrist after a fall off a broom. Harry and friends fight a troll and knock it unconscious, are nearly crushed by a constricting plant and pummeled by a life-size chess board. Harry and Draco see a dead and bloody unicorn and are chased by a hooded figure in the Forbidden Forest. A three-headed dog threatens Harry and friends. Kids are in peril often, but it's mostly at the hands of fantasy creatures.
