Get Excited for Fantastic Beasts Weekend!

Harry Potter: The series that started the magic

Though it’s unlikely you’ve forgotten one of the most influential book & movie series of all time, one of the best ways to pump yourself up for The Secrets of Dumbledore is to revisit the magic of the original Harry Potter series, which has sold more than 500 million copies worldwide—making it the best-selling book series in history.

Should you want to re-visit your favourite of the 8 movies, all 8 are available with D-BOX’s signature at-home haptic feedback!

The novels and films chronicle the life of Harry Potter, a young, orphaned wizard, as well as his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

When Harry is contacted as a young boy in the first novel by a half-giant named Hagrid, he learns not only that he’s a wizard, but that his parents were murdered by Lord Voldemort—a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, take over the governing Ministry of Magic and rule over all wizards and muggles (non-magical humans).

While Voldemort attempted to kill Harry as a baby as well, the spell rebounded and failed—leaving Harry with his famous lightning-shaped scar and nickname, the boy who lived.

As Harry’s 7-year magical education at Hogwarts goes on, Voldemort consistently grows stronger—he finds a body, resurrects himself, and begins building an army to accomplish his goal. However, over the years, Harry becomes stronger as well. Not only does he learn magic, but he creates indestructible bonds with others, seeks out truth and justice in all places, and most importantly, he finds the courage to do what’s right: take on Voldemort and his army to save the Wizarding World, even if it means sacrificing himself.

You can also plunge yourself back into the magic of the original series by watching the 20-year HBO Max reunion that premiered in January of this year (although it’s not yet available with haptic feedback, it’s worth the watch)!

Did you know? Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was originally a book!

That’s right! The inspiration for the spinoff series comes from J.K. Rowling’s 2001 book that goes by the same name, though it was written under the pen name Newt Scamander.

The premise for the book is simple: like any ordinary muggle school, students who got bored at Hogwarts tended to doodle in their textbooks, and Harry was no exception. The book is written as if it was a Hogwarts textbook about all the magical creatures that Newt discovered on his journeys, which Harry was eventually assigned for a class!

Its 128 pages are filled with doodles and notes from Harry, Hermione, Ron and more, as they recount where they encountered certain magical creatures and what they learned about them. The book is a short and great way to further immerse yourself into the Fantastic Beasts series and will teach you far more than what the movies can about all the fantastic beasts in the Wizarding world, and—you guessed it—where to find them!

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The first movie

Set 70 years before Harry reads Newt’s textbook at Hogwarts, the first Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film was originally released in 2016 and follows Newt during the mid-1920s and he roams New York with a mysterious suitcase.

In the increasingly tense political landscape of the Wizarding World, the young activist sees his suitcase—which is home to dozens of magical creatures—disappear in a time when disasters occurring left, right and center are being credited to the dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald. Fearing the worst for his magical friends (and for himself), Newt goes on a rapid quest to get them all back—before things spiral out of control for him.

Starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterson, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol and more, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is just waiting to be re-discovered by watching it with D-BOX’s high-fidelity haptic feedback!