Other mature content includes some drinking - Harry and friends are considered of-age in the wizarding world at 17 and drink wine, mead, and some hard alcohol, but never to excess. Harry finally visits his parents' gravesite and the home where they were killed. There's constant talk in the news about the deaths of both wizards and Muggles at the hands of Voldemort's followers. Violent action sequences include a flying motorcycle crash, explosions, snake attacks, kidnapping, a near-drowning, and a number of chases, duels with wands, and close-call escapes. Scenes of torture are described, with characters writhing in pain, and characters sustain injuries that can't be healed by magic. Most happen in battle, but others are caused by curses, a giant snake, strangulation, and a stabbing. Get ready to have a few good cries with kids. One or two deaths will really stick with readers, depending on who they liked best throughout the series. Here, so many notable characters die (or appear to die) that it's almost hard to keep track by the end. There have been major character deaths since Book 4. Rowling's series about an orphan who discovers that he's a wizard tasked with saving the magical world from the evil Lord Voldemort. Parents need to know that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final book in J.K.
