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Sex & Nudity

• Severity? 166 12 0 3

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• Boys are in a girl's (abandoned) bathroom. A ghost offers to share her toilet if one of the characters dies. Nothing bad after that
• None
• Some girls/women swoon over Lockhart. Ron says his mom fancies him

Violence & Gore

• Severity? 4 96 36 7

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• Ron and Harry are attacked by the whomping willow inside the car.
• Professor Lockhart is hit in the head with a rock and knocked out
• Large spiders try to attack two boys. Some of the spiders get run over by a car or killed by spells. One tries to bite one of the boys in a 'jump' scene, but gets repelled before it can wound him. That boy is shown to have arachnophobia, so he seems uneasy and anxious throughout the scene.
• Dobby hits himself with Harry's desk lamp and a medicine bottle
• Dobby's hands are heavily bandaged in one scene. He mentions that he had to iron them as a punishment.
• A man falls off a window. No injuries, and he lives
• A bludger chases a character in a Quidditch game and breaks his arm. Another character falls off his broom and lands awkwardly. The another character tries to fix the broken armed player with magic, but instead makes his bones disappear. He folds the floppy arm over in a gross way
• Some magical dueling and mischief. Nothing worse than being knocked around
• Mild
• Some messages written in blood
• Vernon falls off a 2nd story window. He lands on some bushes but is without apparent injury
• Ron vomits slugs. People around him laugh
• Harry faces off with a giant snake. A phoenix blinds the snake by scratching out its eyes. We see the empty sockets spurring blood. Harry stabs the snake through the roof of its mouth. Some blood is shown. He is also bitten by the snake and pulls a fang out of his arm. Wounds are shown, as well as dripping blood.

Profanity

• Severity? 56 75 2 2

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• Draco calls Hermione a 'filthy little Mudblood', which is revealed to be an offensive term for someone who has some Muggle ancestry.
• Ron occasionally says 'Bloody hell'.
• Vernon says 'bloody' a couple of times.
• 1 use of devil

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

• Severity? 116 12 1 5

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• Two boys eat cupcakes laced with knockout potions. They promptly faint in comedic fashion
• Hermione brews Polyjuice Potion to allow her, Harry and Ron to turn into Slytherin students. Her potion turns out to contain a cat hair, resulting in her turning into a human/cat hybrid and the potion not wearing off as it should.
• None
• Aunt Petunia, Mr and Mrs Mason have champagne.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

• Severity? 3 53 81 11

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• Harry and Ron are attacked by giant spiders.
• Throughout the film, Harry hears the voice of the snake.
• Lots of snake and spider scenes
• Moderate
• The scene in Knockturn Alley has a unexpected moment: it is very quiet when Harry is examining an item in the shop (the Hand of Glory) and suddenly it grabs Harry's hand with a loud sound effect.
• Entire confrontation with the Basilisk (large snake) is quite frightening.

Spoilers

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