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1 day ago · So to watch the Harry Potter movies in order, your journey now begins with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, set in 1926 and starring Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scarmander. Fantastic Beasts:...
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- Where Does Hogwarts Legacy Fit in the Harry Potter Timeline?
- 1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
- 2. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
- 3. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
- 4. Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
- 5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
- 6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
By Jacob Kienlen
Updated: Jan 10, 2024 10:58 pm
Posted: Nov 28, 2023 2:01 pm
Although there are many folks out there who think the books were better than their film adaptations, the Harry Potter movies have become an essential part of the franchise. The film universe has even extended beyond the original series with 3 addtional Fantastic Beast prequels that introduced us to a new part of the wizarding world. Now that Hogwarts Legacy is available to play, it's a good time to revisit the Potter timeline to see where everything fits.
Whether you're new to the series or have just forgotten the proper order of the films, we've got you covered with our guides below. Take a look at how to watch the Harry Potter movies in chronological order or by release date.
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Although there were only 7 books in the original series, there are a total of 11 movies in the Harry Potter franchise. This includes 8 films based on the books (2 parts for the Deathly Hallows) and 3 Fantastic Beasts prequels. Outside of the films there is a Broadway play called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as well as quite a lot of Harry Pott...
If you want to exclude the Fantastic Beasts movies from your streaming marathon, you can watch all 8 of the Harry Potter movies in just under 20 hours. Adding in the prequel films will add another 6 hours and 49 minutes to that total.
Hogwarts Legacy takes place before any of the mainline movies sometime around the 1890s. For context, the Fantastic Beasts movies begin in the 1920s and the Harry Potter films start in the 1990s. And although it takes place before the films, there are quite a few last names in Hogwarts Legacy you'll recognize from the books and movies and Hogwarts ...
Set all the way back in 1926, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was the first Harry Potter spin-off prequel to hit theaters. Considering it takes place around 70 years before Harry starts school at Hogwarts, it is the first film you'll want to watch if you're going by chronological order. The first Fantastic Beasts film focuses on Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) as he navigates his way through New York and the magical underpinnings of the United States.
Read our review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Just a few months after the end of the first prequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald takes us back to England and features even more tie-ins to the original Harry Potter Movies. We get a look at a young Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and even get introduced to a youthful Minderva McGonagall (Fiona Glascott). The film itself largely focuses on the villain revealed in the first movie, Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp).
Read our review of The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the first film in the Fantastic Beasts series that sees a true time jump. Set 5 years after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald, the third film in the Fantastic Beasts series largely focuses on Grindelwald himself once again -- who is actually played by Mads Mikkelsen this time. There are a few time jumps due to a creature named Qilin, but most of the movie is set in the 1930s.
Read our review of The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone is the first film in the original series. And while the majority of the film takes place in 1991, the true start of the film is technically 1980 -- the year when Harry was born and Hagrid drops him of at the Dursley residence. Since this is the first Harry Potter movie released, it gives us our first look at Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) as well as our initial forray into wizarding world through a Muggle lens.
See more about The Sorcerer's Stone.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second film released in the franchise and thus follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts. This places the movie between 1992 and 1993 as Harry uncovers truths of the past from giant spiders and a young ghost-like Voldemort. It also gives us our first indroduction to Professor Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh) and Dobby the House Elf.
See more about The Chamber of Secrets.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third film in the original series and coincides with Harry's third year of classes at Hogwarts -- taking place in 1993. This is the first film where we start to truly see the darker side of the wizarding world as we get introduced to the likes of Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) and Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spall). We also get an introduction to werewolves from the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Remus Lupin (David Thewlis), and of course the creepy soul-sucking Dementors of Azkaban.
Read our review of The Prisoner of Azkaban.
- Jacob Kienlen
Jul 10, 2024 · The Harry Potter movies' release order is straightforward, with a new film released almost every year, with some two years apart. This makes sense, with child actors as the stars, taking longer than a year or two between each film would have caused issues in terms of on-screen aging.
Here's how to watch the full Harry Potter series in order. Your guide to where you can watch every movie from the Harry Potter series, in order - including the Fantastic Beasts films. Going...
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Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.
Feb 14, 2024 · Here are the 11 Harry Potter movies in release date order: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of...
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Feb 11, 2023 · Harry Potter Movies in Order of Release Date. Image via Warner Bros. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - November 16, 2001. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - November...
