fifthhollow:

prongsmydeer:

Say what you will about how Harry Potter increases in complexity and darkness as it progresses but I think JKR sets the tone of the series pretty well when she has Dumbledore play ding-dong-ditch with a baby in the first chapter

Book one: 11 year old kids almost die several times before one murders a teacher in self defense

Book two: A sentient being is abused and forced to hurt themself for trying to protect a child from harm, seventeen year old magic Hitler invades the mind of an eleven year old girl, emotionally abuses and mentally assaults her until she commits acts of terror and attempts to murder other children for him, he then tries to kill her and two twelve year old’s

Book three: A man is wrongly imprisoned and tortured to the point of near insanity for twelve years, a group of prison guards that tear aware all light and happiness before ripping people’s souls out are let loose on a school full of children

Book four: Four teenagers participate in special wizard Olympics which where previously outlawed due to the high mortality rate among participants, a man suffering from PTSD is assaulted and locked in a box for several months, several people are stripped of their free will, several people are brutally tortured, a teenager is murdered in cold blood, his fourteen year old friend has to hold his lifeless body close in order to bring it back to safety

Book five: Several high ranking government officials collude to assassinate the character of a fifteen year old boy who has just been through a traumatic experience, a deranged psychopath emotionally and mentally abuses the same fifteen year old to the point where he starts questioning reality, a man is murdered for trying to protect his godson a high ranking government official forces children who question her and her propaganda to harm themselves so severely the cuts almost reach their bones and permanently scar

The darkness didn’t increase from book to book it just got more complex