- fellow parents of young Potter fans out there - THANKS!

[lavaluvn]

Thanks to everyone for their advice. Vivamus, I tried your 
suggestion and summarized the graveyard scene up to the duel.  I 
think that helped avoid some of the trauma.  Entropy - I wish I had 
read your advice because I think I should have warned her about 
Cedric's death.  She was very upset about that- she had been very 
excited that Harry and Cedric were going to win the Cup together.  
And I kept choking up at the scene with Cedric, Lily and James. 

 She's always been pretty sensitive, particularly to scary parts of 
movies (like I am!), but insisted that she could handle it, and 
overall not much has bothered her in the books.  We actually took 
her to see the COS film when it first came out - she was around 4 -
and we had to take her out because she was too scared.  And I don't 
mean the spiders or basilisk, she was terrified of the Dursleys.  
But she saw the third film at a friend's home and loved it and has 
since watched all of them many times (though we still have to skip 
over the scary parts.  For a long time we weren't even allowed to 
say the word "werewolf").

 I've decided that we won't be reading OOTP just yet, though she 
still wants to.  Maybe we can do our own bedtime story fan fiction!  
And when her reading improves enough she can start reading the books 
herself.

Up until the end of GOF, I really loved reading the books aloud.  I 
tend to read too quickly and skim, so even though I've read the 
first several books countless times, it was a very difference 
experience reading word for word.
 Thanks again everyone.  
Andromeda