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Since you've never done either (except for PS), I would watch the movies first, then read the books (or alternate, but start with the movie). It's difficult for a movie to thoroughly represent a book, and HP is no exception.
As a golden rule, if you can read a book before watching a movie, start with the book then the movie. Harry Potter is no exception to this rule.
But definitely make sure you read the books before watching each movie. The movies have the plot points and the big twists/turnouts— they present the shell of the series. But the books describe the importance and the meaning behind everything 500x more than the films.
- So What Are The Books About, exactly? Like, Actually?
- You’Re Going to Be Reading A Lot of Strange Words
- And Meet A Lot of Interesting People
- You May Know A Few Things Already – But That’S OK
- Things Might Get A Little Scary...
- And The Books Will Magically Start Getting Bigger and Bigger
- It’S A Marathon, Not A Sprint
- And Once You’Re Done, That’S Definitely Not The End
Okay: in a nutshell, a young 11-year old boy with glasses and a lightning bolt scar called Harry Potter finds out that he’s a wizard with magical powers and must go to a special school to learn how to do magic. Along the way, he learns many secrets about his past, and discovers that not all wizards are good...
Quaffle. Flobberworm. Riddikulus! Get ready for all manner of weird and wonderful words, guys. These are not your every-day books. But don’t worry, everything will be explained as you go along, and soon, the words of the wizarding world will be a second language! And if you get really stuck, here’s a handy glossaryto get you started.
Albus Dumbledore! Professor McGonagall! Who are all these curious people? For a book called “Harry Potter”, you do get a lot of fascinating names in this series... no offence, Harry. You’ll soon learn that wizards and witches are rather different to us, wear different sorts of clothes, and have many different interests. And it’s not just people too...
If you’ve not read the books, that doesn’t mean you haven’t seen a Harry Potter film on the television. Or maybe a friend or family-member has told you all about how they’re a Gryffindor, and you’re like, ‘What?’ So you might know bits and bobs about the adventure already – but don’t worry. It’ll all make sense once you start at the beginning. Just...
Are you squeamish? Be on your guard, then! At Hogwarts school, not everything is as it seems. Sometimes these books get a little frightening, especially when a certain someone called Lord Voldemort makes an appearance... but also watch out for giant spiders, werewolves, and more things we won’t spoil for you now. Remember, at the end of the day, it...
As you read more Harry Potter books, you’ll learn that there’s just so much in the wizarding world that the books start getting fatter! But trust us, once you’ve read the first one and got hooked in, you’ll be even hungrier for more pages.
Don’t feel bad if you’re not the fastest reader in the world. There are seven Harry Potter books, and that’s a lot of magic to get through! Take your time, because you don’t want to speed through it too fast and miss something – there are loads of important mentions in the books that will become important in later books. We’ll give you a heads up o...
When we first finished the Harry Potter books, to say we were sad is an understatement. But chin up, you’ve actually started reading the stories at an exciting time. Now, there’s a new story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, that looks at the adventures of the wizarding world 19 years later. And then, if you fancy going back in time, you can watc...
- The Final Duel Between Harry and Voldemort. Here's a scene from the movies that completely misses the point its book counterpart was going for. In the book, the final duel between Harry and Voldemort takes place in the Great Hall, where everyone can see.
- Aging Up the Generation of Harry's Parents. Time to get a little controversial, but it has to be said. As fabulous as Alan Rickman was in the role of Severus Snape, and as hard as it would be now to imagine anyone else in the role, he was too old to play the character.
- Harry Wasn't the Only One Who Could Have Been The Chosen One. At the end of Order of the Phoenix, just after he's finished his Divination O.W.L., Harry witnesses Professor Trelawny going into a sort of trance where she delivers the famous prophecy in which Harry appears to be the only one who has the ability to destroy Voldemort.
- Giving Ron's Best Lines to Hermione or Cutting Them Out Completely. It's almost universally agreed upon that the Harry Potter films did Ron dirty. One of the most notable ways Ron got the short end of the stick was how most of his best lines were given to Hermione.
Nov 19, 2020 · From Dumbledore's backstory to Neville Longbottom's Prophecy destiny, here are 20 differences between the Harry Potter books and movies.
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Jul 14, 2019 · From Harry’s famous green eyes being changed to blue to Narcissa Malfoy’s unique two-tone ’do, here’s how the Harry Potter characters transformed from page to screen, and why they were reimagined for the films.
