How to watch Harry Potter movies in order

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If you want to watch the Harry Potter movies in order, grab your wand, head to Platform nine three/4 and settle in for a streaming ride. The beloved books have ignited the imaginations of kids all over the earth, who dreamed of attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry alongside Harry, Hermione and Ron.

The seven books were adjusted into 8 movies (with the final book split into two films) that brought in billions of dollars at the box function and made stars of its immature bandage. The popularity of the books and movies led to the Fantastic Beasts spinoffs (Fantastic Beasts 3 is out this spring).

The Harry Potter franchise starts with the eponymous hero at the age of 11, who discovers he's actually a wizard. He receives an invite to nourish Hogwarts, nether the guidance of kind Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. There, he makes friends, enters his teen years and hones his powers before facing off against the Lord Voldemort, the nighttime wizard who killed his parents.

Every bit the Harry Potter-verse has grown, so also has the number of streaming options. Information technology tin be confusing to effigy out where to find the Harry Potter movies and whether to stream them past release engagement or by the chronological timeline. That's why we've put together this guide on how to scout the the Harry Potter movies in order — and then you can know where to watch them while yous await for Fantastic Beasts 3, y'all tin can watch the Harry Potter reunion Return to Hogwarts.

Where to watch the Harry Potter movies

As of January 2022, you can detect all eight original Harry Potter movies on HBO Max and also on Peacock .

Due to various rights bug, the 2 streamers have traded the Harry Potter movie collection between them. At present, they appear to exist sharing for at to the lowest degree a menstruation of time.

The two Fantastic Beasts films are now available on HBO Max: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Harry Potter movies in order of release date

Watching the Harry Potter movies in release order is easy. The eight original movies came out showtime, so the Fantastic Beasts spinoffs.

Here's the listing of films and the twelvemonth of their theatrical release:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Rock (2001)
Stream on:HBO Max |Peacock
Hire/buy: Amazon | Apple tree | YouTube
Harry Potter and the Sleeping accommodation of Secrets (2002)
Stream on: HBO Max | Peacock
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple | YouTube
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Stream on: HBO Max | Peacock
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple | YouTube
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Stream on: HBO Max | Peacock
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple | YouTube
Harry Potter and the Social club of the Phoenix (2007)
Stream on: HBO Max | Peacock
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple | YouTube
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Stream on: HBO Max | Peacock
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple | YouTube
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Office 1 (2010)
Stream on: HBO Max | Peacock
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple | YouTube
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Office ii (2011)
Stream on: HBO Max | Peacock
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple | YouTube
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Stream on: HBO Max
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple | YouTube
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Stream on: HBO Max
Rent/buy: Amazon | Apple tree | YouTube
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (April 15, 2022)

Harry Potter movies in order — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — (Image credit: EA/Warner Bros.)

Harry Potter movies in social club of chronological events

Now, here's where things get slightly tricky. The Fantastic Beasts films are prequels, so they take place decades earlier the events of the original Harry Potter movies.

Those take identify during Harry's time at Hogwarts, so each book/picture show corresponds to a school year. The final two movies split the final book and schoolhouse yr.

Here's the list of Harry Potter movies and the year in which they are set:

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (1926)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (1927)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Rock (1991-92)
Harry Potter and the Bedchamber of Secrets (1992-93)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1992-94)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (1994-95)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (1995-96)
Harry Potter and the One-half-Blood Prince (1996-97)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Office 1 (1997-98)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (1997-98)

Fantastic Beasts 3 is likely to exist set right after the 2nd moving-picture show in that series and before the events of Magician's Stone.

And if the Harry Potter stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Kid, is made into a movie, it would fall at the end of both the release order and chronological guild since information technology'south set circa 2017.

Are the Harry Potter movies on Peacock or HBO Max?

Expect, didn't Peacock have the Harry Potter movies? Or was it HBO Max? Yeah, they take swapped ownership of the franchise since they both launched. Currently (every bit of December vii, 2021), both services are streaming all Harry Potter movies.

HBO Max streamed the Harry Potter movies when information technology launched in summer 2020. See, WarnerMedia owns the Harry Potter film franchise. However, the corporation sold the broadcast and cable (and streaming) rights to NBCUniversal, which owns Peacock. Just WarnerMedia borrowed them back — likely for a hefty fee — and so that its new streaming service could launch with some big titles.

Then, the Harry Potter movies moved dorsum to Peacock, where they streamed on and off through 2021. They returned to HBO Max over the summer. In October, both streamers have them.

And then who knows what will happen in 2025, when NBCUniversal's Goggle box rights lapse.

As writer Jess Mason joked on Twitter, "Harry Potter is like the child of a divorce where the parents are Universal and Warner Bros and the franchise just keeps being pulled to different homes."

So many streaming services, all fighting over the same valuable IP.

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Kelly is a senior writer roofing streaming media for Tom's Guide, so basically, she watches TV for a living. Previously, she was a freelance entertainment writer for Yahoo, Vulture, TV Guide and other outlets. When she's not watching TV and movies for work, she's watching them for fun, seeing live music, writing songs, knitting and gardening.