History Film / HarryPotter

* RedRightHand: Aside from the Malfoys, who are ObviouslyEvil for different reasons, most of the primary villains have some physical deformity or other to mark their low morals. Voldemort is a monstrous snake man. Bellatrix is a dishevelled madwoman with crooked teeth. Wormtail is the [[TheIgor Igor]] every Igor aspires to be. [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr.]] has a twitching tongue constantly lancing his lips and erratic, mad eyes (pun unintended). The Carrows are a pair of gremlins, and Greyback's disgusting face breaks the masquerade even harder than Voldemort's. Even less threatening antagonists are often given some grim blemish – like Captain Wood's opposite on Slytherin's Quidditch team, who's a sneering GutturalGrowler with hilariously overpronounced BritishTeeth – just so you know who not to cheer for.

* AdaptationalSlimnes:
** Oliver Wood is described as "burly" in the books but is fairly average in the films.
** Fred and George are described in the books as being on the shorter, stockier side, compared to their younger brother Ron, which makes sense for their Quidditch positions as beaters. In the films, they are skinny and taller than Ron, even in the later films when Ron has grown up.

** Harry says "You're lying, Dolores... and you mustn't tell lies!" in ''Deathly Hallows – Part 2'', calling back to a similar scene in ''Order of the Phoenix''.

** In ''Half-Blood Prince'', Rufus Scrigmeour is (according to Luna, who read it in The Quibbler) is actually a vampire. In the film version of ''Deathly Hallows'', Scrigemeour is played by Bill Nighy, who played vampire clan leader Viktor in the ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' trilogy.

*** [[spoiler:Wormtail]] is spared (he survives ''Part 1'', and doesn't appear at all in ''Part 2'').]]
*** [[spoiler:Vincent Crabbe, whose actor wasn't available for the movie, so Goyle was the one to die by Fiendfyre.]]

On September 12, 2013, [[http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=38737 Warner Bros.]] announced that they were developing a new spin-off movie series set in the ''Potter'' universe, ''Film/FantasticBeasts'', initially based on the [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] book ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem''. The first two films are written by Rowling alone, but Creator/SteveKloves (who wrote all of these other than ''Order of the Phoenix'') is given credit as a co-writer on the third installment. 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. Three of the intended five have been released, with the final two in the early stages of development.

In April 2023, a new set of live action ''Harry Potter'' adaptations was announced for the Creator/{{Max}} streaming service. The new series is planned to adapt all seven books, with Rowling serving as executive producer.