Here's Where You Can Watch Every Harry Potter Movie (In Order) Right Now
For one reason or another, the Boy Who Lived might be a resurrected figure in your memory these days. Perhaps your everyday evils have you looking to vanish back into the movie magic that captivated your younger years. Or, maybe Twitter’s latest “the movie villain/the real villain” trend has given you a newfound urge to uncloak the series’ true [Person] Who Shall Not Be Named.
Whatever is drawing you back towards Platform 9 and ?, you don’t need to leap through any brick walls to track down each installment of the Harry Potter saga. Here’s how to watch the Harry Potter movies in order.
Though J.K. Rowling is working hard to destroy her own legacy on Twitter, legions of fans will not let her present-day bigotry ruin the magic of the Harry Potter series. After the books captured a generation's imaginations, this film series managed to visualize the vast wizarding world. The casting is spot on, and the films grow in complexity and scope as the characters and the source material does.
This is Alan Rickman and Snape’s movie. Though the character doesn’t get his full redemption until the final entry in the series, Rickman is at his peak in Half Blood Prince. The emotional complexity of Snape is boiling under Rickman’s eyes. The tortured, lovesick potions master is misunderstood through his heroic ending. Rickman captures the drama, uncertainty, and torment of Snape, a wizarding turncoat despised by the rebels he secretly fought alongside. At this point, Harry Potter fans knew how Snape’s story would play out, with the seventh book released two years before the sixth move. And even in Snape’s darkest moment—killing Dumbledore—the pain and true motives for what he’s done are there just beneath his practiced exterior. This is all thanks to the nuanced acting of Rickman. - MM
For the record, all of the films in the Harry Potter franchise are necessary to the story, but for a final book insistent on being split into two movies, Deathly Hallows Part 1 sure did spend a lot of time doing absolutely nothing. There’s a lot of kowtowing about destroying horcruxes that feels drawn out and tiresome. Hogwarts is, understandably, worried about Voldemort, but this penultimate installment spent more time attempting to build up a story that was already well on its way to a climax. Dobby fans will say this film belongs much higher on the list because the free elf deserves justice, but here’s the thing: Deathly Hallows Part 1 is easily the biggest disparity between expectation and delivery. Esquire’s sorry, Harry. - JK
Though J.K. Rowling’s final book in the Harry Potter series suffers from uneven pacing, many of the moments that stalled the story made it into the first half of the Deathly Hallows (to that film’s great detriment). The action, and the climax of this series were saved for the final film. And what a conclusion Deathly Hallows Part 2 makes for the most beloved fantasy series of our lifetime. Hallows Part 2 is a deeply affecting and powerful finale to Harry Potter’s story. While one could argue that this final entry could have been told with one movie, at least the second half made up for the lull in part one. — MM
Here's Where You Can Watch Every Harry Potter Movie (In Order) Right Now
For one reason or another, the Boy Who Lived might be a resurrected figure in your memory these days. Perhaps your everyday evils have you looking to vanish back into the movie magic that captivated your younger years. Or, maybe Twitter’s latest “the movie villain/the real villain” trend has given you a newfound urge to uncloak the series’ true [Person] Who Shall Not Be Named.
Whatever is drawing you back towards Platform 9 and ?, you don’t need to leap through any brick walls to track down each installment of the Harry Potter saga. Here’s how to watch the Harry Potter movies in order.
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