The 2016 film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduces Potter fans to a world before The Boy Who Lived. Jude Law plays Harry Potter's eventual headmaster, Dumbledore, in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

(No true movie spoilers ahead, though there are some details.) For the sake of getting things rolling, we'll start with the Fantastic Beasts. But honestly, if you prefer to watch the Harry Potter series first, though you'll be watching out of chronological order, Harry's rich and detailed universe will inform your knowledge of Newt Scamander and crew. If you're a purist who wants to start with Ye Olden Times in the Harry Potter universe, the Fantastic Beasts films definitely come first: The first one is set seven decades before Harry's time. Here's our guide to watching everything Harry Potter. And there's also a two-part play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, that premiered in 2016 and continues Harry's story as an adult husband and father.

For now, see our guide below on how to watch all Harry Potter movies in order.It might seem pretty straightforward to find all the Harry Potter films and watch them in order, but the Fantastic Beasts movies make it a little tangled. There’s also a Harry Potter series early in development for HBO Max. Then the story of Harry himself begins, starting with Sorcerer’s Stone and concluding in the second-part of The Deathly Hallows, for eight Certified Fresh movies in a row. The third Fantastic Beasts intends to release July 2022, with two more movies to close out the Scarmander and Grindelwald saga.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is set in 1927. 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. Watching the Harry Potter movies in order, seeing the story unfold chronologically in-universe, used to be as easy as finding the one where Daniel Radcliffe looks youngest and starting from there.īut the series has expanded now with the Fantastic Beasts movies, set some 70 years before The Sorcerer’s Stone. (Photo by WB/ courtesy Everett Collection) How to Watch Harry Potter Movies In OrderĮveryone came into the Wizarding World through the Harry Potter books and movies, which introduced us to a gifted 11-year-old, his friends Ron and Hermione, and their hallowed school of magic, Hogwarts.

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