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 Order: See All 11 Movies ChronologicallyĮveryone 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.
