If there's anyone left who has yet to see the movies, it should go without saying there are spoilers ahead. Here's my highly subjective, incredibly opinionated ranking, with some help from Rotten Tomatoes' fan base in case you don't trust my opinion alone. So you might say I have pretty strong opinions on the Harry Potter universe, which now includes the Fantastic Beasts movies too. On his eleventh birthday, a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For some reason, the family has always mistreated him. An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Harry Potter is an average bespectacled eleven-year-old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever since his parents died in a car crash. With Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Saunders Triplets. And yes, this Ravenclaw went to see The Cursed Child on Broadway as soon as my journalist's salary would allow, falling in love with the story all over again. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Directed by Chris Columbus. And as the films hit theaters, my friends and I were often near the front of the line for midnight showings, our house colors proudly on display.
My brother and I fought over who "owned" our family's sole copy of each book and bartered with our parents for "just a few more pages" more nights than I can count.
SUMMARY OF ALL HARRY POTTER MOVIES SERIES
Before long, I developed unique voices for each of the characters, solidifying my place as the de facto reader when we gathered in front of the fireplace to spend some time in Harry's magical world.Īs the series wore on, we read chapters from Harry Potter on our annual summer road trips, the miles slipping by with the chapters. The first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, came out when I was 10, and my family read it aloud together almost every night. He goes into the kitchen, hands Vernon the rest of the mail, and walks around the other side of the table to see his letter.
The Harry Potter movies - and the books that preceded them - played a huge role in my childhood. He sorts through the letters and sees his, addressed to him.