18 Crazy Facts You Have To Accept To Enjoy The Wizarding World Movies

And finally, the big one, the most distracting thing when you watch the Harry Potter leg of the franchise today: it should've been a TV series.

As a TV show, it would've been far easier to get all the content from the books in and also show a whole school year passing without rushing it. As well as this, as shows such as Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Amazon Prime's Alex Rider prove, TV is often a better medium for adapting book series such as this.

If made now, the Harry Potter films would've been a TV series for certain (and it seems very likely that the series will be remade as a TV show in the future), but taken on their own terms, the Harry Potter movies are still mostly impressive works that are largely standing the test of time so far.