J. K. Rowling Books in Order (Complete Series List) (2024)

All Harry Potter has ever known with the Dursleys is a life of misery. His aunt and uncle are terrible, as is their son who is spoiled and bullish. He lives a despondent life in a small closet at the foot of the stairs, and hasn't had a birthday celebration in a staggering eleven years.

Harry Potter had never heard of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry so when strange letters start arriving on his doorstep, his aunt and uncle doesn’t waste any time in seizing the letters.

Everything however changes on his eleventh birthday when a strange man storms in with some life-changing news that Harry Potter is a wizard; on course to study at Hogwarts.

With this, the first Harry Potter adventure begins.

Dobby, a house-elf, has been sending Harry Potter stern warnings all through the summer holidays that followed his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The creature warns that disaster will strike if Harry returns to Hogwarts.

When Harry returns to school to commence his second year, he begins hearing strange whispers echoing through the corridors.

It doesn’t take long before the strikes begin.

Dobby’s horrifying prophecy is coming to pass.

The feared fortress of Azkaban had for twelve long years been the home of a notorious prisoner named by the name Sirius Black. Cast into Azkaban for destroying thirteen people with a single curse, many believe that he is the heir to Voldemort—the Dark Lord.

But Sirius Black escapes from prison, and is going after Harry Potter.

Professor Trelawney, during his first Divination class, sees an omen of death in Harry’s tea leaves.

Even more unsettling is the fact that the Dementors patrol the school ground looking for new victims.

It turns out that Harry Potter isn't safe, even within the confines of his magical school.

With the Triwizard Tournament about to take place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the most apparent rule is that only wizards above the age of seventeen are allowed to participate.

So for Harry Potter, it’s something that he can only fantasize about winning.

But when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection on Hallowe’en, his name is surprisingly selected out of the magical cup.

Facing dangerous tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, Harry will have to count on his friends for help in order to stay alive.

Harry Potter is convinced that he is next on Voldemort’s target list after the Dementors attack his cousin, Dudley.

Even though many have not yet accepted the return of the Dark Lord, Harry isn’t alone, as a secret order is meeting at Grimmauld Place to defend against the Dark forces.

Harry Potter’s mind is however continuously haunted by Voldemort’s assaults which are growing more brutal by the day.

To survive, he must allow Professor Snape to teach him on how he can protect himself.

Dumbledore’s wand hand ends up blackened and shrunken one summer night when he arrives at Privet Drive to pick Harry Potter, and he refuses to reveal why.

When rumors start running riot throughout the wizarding world, it becomes a general feeling that Hogwarts itself could very well be under threat.

Harry Potter on the other hand believes that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark. Could a Death Eater surely be amongst them?

He will not only need powerful magic but also true friends as he embarks on the dangerous mission of investigating Voldemort’s darkest secrets.

Harry Potter is on his way out of Privet Drive for the last time.

As he makes his way into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they shoot to the skies, he knows all too well that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will be closely monitoring them.

With the protective charm—one that has shielded him from danger now broken—Harry knows that he can’t keep hiding from the Dark Lord who is relentlessly breathing fear into everything dearest to him.

As such, Harry must trace the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them if he is to end Voldemort’s reign of terror.

He will have to face his sworn enemy in an epic final battle.

Harry Potter’s life has never been easy, and things aren’t any easier nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts.

Nowadays, Harry is not only a husband and a father of three school-going children but also an overburdened employee at the Ministry of Magic.

As he struggles with a personal history that just won’t stay in the past, Albus—his youngest son—has to cope with the burden of the family legacy he never solicited for.

When the past unites with the present, both father and son will discover that evil sometimes comes from unexpected places.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child—the work of J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne—is the eighth installment in the Harry Potter series.

The play, which is scripted Jack and directed by John, is the first ever Harry Potter story to be presented on stage.