Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Can you skip Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?

Yes, on a first watch. It is self-contained, and nothing in the main Harry Potter story depends on it. Come back to it later if you want more. Show only the Harry Potter essentials.

Harry Potter guides

• Harry Potter orderEight films at Hogwarts and three set sixty years earlier. The order is simple; the only real question is where Fantastic Beasts goes.
• Wizarding World timelineFantastic Beasts first, then Hogwarts. It is a clean split, and still the wrong way to watch it.

Where it sits in the Harry Potter order

Release order

#9 of 11

Chronological order

#1 of 11

Released

18 November 2016

In-universe era

The Grindelwald Era

More from Fantastic Beasts

• 10Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald2018
• 11Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore2022

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