It always bugs me when people seem to expect everything to be geared towards "the children", anyway. I mean sure, the HP books are children's books, but they're really also on the borderline of being Y/A books, which often do tend to deal with bigger issues.

I wonder, how much harm does it really do a kid to read "dark" books anyway? I thought about lots of "dark" stuff when I was a kid, and I think I turned out okay. The stuff that really harmed me was how I was treated by other people, not the books I read.