My 9 year old is very afraid of scary movies, but he loved the Harry Potter ones (although he was afraid of the big snake too). I think it helped that we read all of the books first, so he knew what was going to happen and he really wanted to see the movies (he usually doesn't even want to go to anything remotely scary).
Still, in the very begining of the Deathly Hallows (part 1), you see Voldemort torture and murder a woman and then tell the snake to eat her. It's not bloody, but it's still pretty brutal. And a lot of people get killed. So, yes, I do think they are darker than the previous movies.
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