The movies, on the other hand, tend to downplay the character moments (Hermione's pet cat seemingly eating Ron's rat was a big deal in the book, while the movie glosses right over it) and play up the action set pieces (Harry and his friends are attacked and barely escape from a werewolf twice in that same movie, which never happened in the original novel).
It wasn't heard again after Chamber of Secrets, when the films took a much darker tone.
HARRY POTTER ILD FILES SERIES
The series starts in 1926, sixty-five years before Harry stepped foot in Hogwarts and its protagonist is famed Magizoologist/scribe of the textbook, Newt Scamander. The first two films are written by Rowling alone but Steve Kloves (who wrote all of these other than Order of the Phoenix) is given credit as a co-writer on the upcoming third instalment. announced that they were developing a new spin-off movie series set in the Harry Potter universe, Fantastic Beasts, initially based on the defictionalized book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The films were a Star-Making Role for Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, and boasted an All-Star Cast and a who's who of the British acting scene, including: Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh, David Thewlis, Julie Walters, John Hurt, Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrane, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson, John Cleese, Helena Bonham Carter, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds, David Bradley, Warwick Davis, Julie Christie and Brendan Gleeson. The eight films have earned a combined 7.7 billion dollars in revenue falling just shy of a billion dollars per film. Harry Potter is the third-most financially successful film series of all time. Mike Newell came next, following more-or-less in Cuarón's footsteps, but with a larger eye for spectacle and adventure, though his Goblet of Fire left a lot of stuff out. Columbus was succeeded by Alfonso Cuarón who decided to reverse that emphasis with Prisoner of Azkaban.
The first two films, directed by Chris Columbus, place more emphasis on plot than characterization and are generally faithful to the books save for some added magical action scenes. The films vary greatly in tone and style, as pretty much everything except the main cast was changed at least once over the decade-long process of making the films - the director, the screenwriter, the score, the sets, the costumes, the lighting and visual effects, the actor who played the villain, the maturity of the child actors, and the level of deviation from the books. The entire series (which had taken a higher aggregate box-office gross than any other film series until being overtaken by the Marvel Cinematic Universe) spans eight movies. The films star Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. Starting in 2001 and finishing in 2011, each of the seven main Harry Potter books was put to film.