Harry Potter film order: What is the best order to watch the Harry Potter movies?

(Pocket-lint) - The Wizarding World has captured the imaginativeness of fans the satellite over, but dissimilar immoderate bid of films, there's nary numbering to support you connected track, lone titles.

Then you person the question of the Wizarding World films speech from the Harry Potter communicative - however precisely bash these acceptable into the bigger picture?

Unlike immoderate epic movie franchises, Harry Potter's communicative is sequential, truthful you person to ticker the films successful order. That astatine slightest makes things accordant and determination are important crippled threads that tally from the archetypal to the last, truthful immoderate deviation volition spoil the story, oregon permission you confused.

However, we're presenting 2 orders to you, the merchandise order, i.e, the day the films came out, and the chronological bid that those films occurred connected a Wizarding World timeline. One mentation has spoilers, truthful to debar those if you haven't seen the films, click the links to leap close to the bid you're looking for. 

Harry Potter movie merchandise bid (spoilers) | Harry Potter movie merchandise bid (no spoilers) | Harry Potter movie chronological bid (no spoilers)

Harry Potter movie merchandise order

NOTE: THERE ARE SPOILERS BELOW

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

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This is the commencement of the Harry Potter communicative wherever you conscionable Harry for the archetypal clip arsenic helium heads to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, acceptable successful 1991 - but the movie was released successful 2001. You conscionable galore of the main characters astatine Hogwarts, including the instauration of Lord Voldemort, Harry's arch nemesis, with the enactment revolving astir the Philosopher's Stone. That chromatic belonged to Nicholas Flamel, who you don't really conscionable until Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 

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The 2nd publication successful the bid and the 2nd film, the adventures astatine Hogwarts proceed for Harry Potter and his friends. Lord Voldemort grows stronger and things get a small darker arsenic the children get older. The movie came retired successful 2002, but is acceptable successful 1992.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 

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There's rather a measurement alteration for the 3rd movie arsenic we're introduced to Sirius Black (the prisoner), who has a immense interaction connected Harry's story. But it's truly the instauration of the dementors that spot things getting darker, with an expanding consciousness of peril. At the aforesaid time, the Muggle household storyline becomes little important arsenic Harry embraces his destiny. The movie is acceptable successful 1993, but was released successful 2004.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 

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The Goblet of Fire is simply a pivotal infinitesimal successful the story, taking the characters successful to their teenage years (Harry is astir 14 successful this movie), introducing teenage themes similar relationships, gives america the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament. The movie starts successful 1994 and was released successful 2005.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 

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With Voldemort present a precise existent threat, the enactment sees disruption astatine Hogwarts and the emergence of the absorption against the acheronian lord - the Order of the Phoenix - and the wide denial that there's a occupation from the Ministry of Magic. The movie was released successful 2007 and is acceptable astir 1995.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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The 2009 movie is acceptable successful 1996 and successful galore ways is the communicative of Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore, adding complexity to the Harry Potter communicative and pursuing the heroes into adjacent much perilous engagements with the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

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The last publication successful the Harry Potter communicative becomes 2 films. They are intimately linked, with the archetypal released successful 2010. Harry Potter and friends determine to skip the past twelvemonth of Hogwarts to prosecute Voldemort and bring astir his destruction. Much of the movie revolves astir hunting and destroying horcruxes, portion Voldemort himself seeks the Deathly Hallows, wanting to go a maestro of death.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 

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The 2nd instalment of the Deathly Hallows was released successful 2011 and continues the quests of the archetypal instalment, with a batch much of the enactment centred astir Hogwarts, including the immense Battle of Hogwarts. It pulls connected assorted threads from earlier successful the films - similar the Chamber of Secrets and overmuch much Potterlore - and brings the communicative to an action-fuelled conclusion.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is named aft a Hogwarts textbook of the aforesaid title, authored by Newt Scamander, who is the protagonist of the Fantastic Beasts films. The films are a prequel to the Harry Potter series, successful that they transportation galore of the Wizarding World themes but successful a antithetic communicative arc. In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander arrives successful New York successful 1926 connected magizoologist concern but is drawn into a magical plot.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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The fantastic beasts instrumentality thing of a backseat arsenic the crippled moves to the pursuit of Grindelwald, who wants to found a wizarding bid that's superior to muggles. We conscionable a young Dumbledore giving a nexus backmost to the Harry Potter films, but galore of the characters from the archetypal Fantastic Beasts return, arsenic good arsenic characters referenced successful different movies, similar Nicholas Flamel. The movie is acceptable successful 1927 but came retired successful 2018, with a 3rd instalment owed to implicit the communicative astatine immoderate constituent successful the future.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

The 3rd installment of the Fantastic Beasts tales picks up wherever The Crimes of Grindelwald near off, seeing an assembled squad of acquainted heroes to halt Grindelwald's plans successful its tracks. It stars Mads Mikkelsen arsenic Grindelwald, replacing Johnny Depp, and sees the instrumentality of Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law. It volition get a theatrical merchandise connected 8 April 2022 successful the UK and Ireland.

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Harry Potter movie merchandise bid (no spoilers) 

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• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone oregon Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Harry Potter movie chronological bid (no spoilers)

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (1926)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (1927)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (1930s)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone oregon Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1991)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1992)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1993)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (1994)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (1995)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (1996)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (1997)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (1998)

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 12 December 2019.