Warner Bros. is being sued by an offended mother who claims a ‘Harry Potter’ reproduction wand critically injured her toddler’s eye … and he or she needs an enormous verify to cowl the damages.
In accordance with the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Jessica Perry says she purchased a ‘Potter’ reproduction wand with a light-up pen perform from a retailer and gave it to her children … just for it to finish up impaling her 3-year-old’s eye.
Jessica claims her older son was waving the wand round — like wizards do within the films and books — when the metallic writing portion of the pen ejected from the wand, flew throughout the room and pierced her youthful son’s eye.
Within the docs, she says the pen ruptured his eyeball, almost leaving him blind and forcing him to endure a pair of eye surgical procedures.
She alleges the wand was faulty, and Warner Bros. ought to have identified concerning the dangers … as a result of she says there’s not less than one on-line evaluate describing an analogous incident.
Within the go well with, Jessica claims her son had to make use of painful eyedrops which made him scream in agony … and he or she says the eyepatch he needed to put on frightened him a lot, he might solely sleep together with his bed room lights on.
She additionally says her little boy now has to protect in opposition to injuring his retina once more … which implies for the remainder of his life he cannot play sports activities, roughhouse or have a traditional life.
She’s suing WB for a number of million {dollars} — $8 mil in compensatory damages for her son’s accidents and emotional misery, plus punitive damages.
We reached out to Warner Bros. … to this point no phrase again.