Harry and Ginny are married with three children, and Ron and Hermione are married with two children. The film's orchestration started in the summer with Conrad Pope, the orchestrator on the first three Harry Potter films, collaborating with Desplat. Some have also felt the series has a "disjointed" feel due to the changes in directors, as well as Michael Gambon's portrayal of Albus Dumbledore differing from that of Richard Harris.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999. Comparing Rowling with Lewis, she argues that "magic is both authors' way of talking about spiritual reality". During the year, Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger become entangled in the mystery of the Philosopher's Stone which is being kept within the school. He described adapting the book as "tough" since it did not "lend itself to adaptation as well as the next two books". He gains the friendship of Ron Weasley, a member of a large but poor wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, a witch of non-magical, or Muggle, parentage.And usually you're fighting with the producers (about the look) but they all wanted it dark and atmospheric, too. In 2000, shortly before the publication of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the previous three Harry Potter books topped The New York Times fiction best-seller list and a third of the entries were children's books. The Goblet of Fire chooses Fleur Delacour, Viktor Krum, and Cedric Diggory to compete against each other. Main article: Harry Potter in translation The Russian translation of The Deathly Hallows goes on sale in Moscow, 2007. In 1999, the winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award children's division was entered for the first time on the shortlist for the main award, and one judge threatened to resign if Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was declared the overall winner; it finished second, very close behind the winner of the poetry prize, Seamus Heaney's translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf.

The film was nominated at the BAFTA Awards, but did not win for Best Production Design or Best Special Visual Effects. Heyman persuaded Radcliffe's parents to allow him to audition for the part of Harry Potter, which involved Radcliffe being filmed. In this sense they are "in a direct line of descent from Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days and other Victorian and Edwardian novels of British public school life", though they are, as many note, more contemporary, grittier, darker, and more mature than the typical boarding school novel, addressing serious themes of death, love, loss, prejudice, coming-of-age, and the loss of innocence in a 1990s British setting. According to the literary scholar Andrew Blake, Harry Potter rejects blood purity as a basis for social division; [136] Suman Gupta agrees that Voldemort's philosophy represents "absolute evil"; [137] and Nel and Eccleshare agree that advocates of racial or blood-based hierarchies are antagonists. K. Rowling has been consistently supportive of the films, [90] [91] [92] and evaluated Deathly Hallows as her favourite one in the series.Three European schools participate in the tournament, with three 'champions' representing each school in the deadly tasks. The series is noted by audiences for growing visually darker and more mature as each film was released. They have attracted a wide adult audience as well as younger readers, and are widely considered cornerstones of modern literature. Hermione Granger teaches Harry Potter that the meaning of these verses from the Christian Bible are "living beyond death. Obviously films have restrictions – novels do not have constraints of time and budget; I can create dazzling effects relying on nothing but the interaction of my own and my readers' imaginations.

Chris Columbus was an executive producer on the first two films alongside Mark Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan, but he became a producer on the third film alongside Heyman and Radcliffe. Academics and journalists have developed many other interpretations of themes in the books, some more complex than others, and some including political subtexts. The final three books "showcase richer roles and more powerful females": for instance, the series' "most matriarchal character", Molly Weasley, engages substantially in the final battle of Deathly Hallows, while other women are shown as leaders.

Tim Burke, the visual effects supervisor, said many studios "are bringing their work to UK effects companies. We had a conversation the very first day I met her where she said, 'I know the movies can't be the books. Special awards "are given to outstanding achievements in the moving image that do not fit into AFI's criteria for the other honorees". David Heyman produced all the films in the series with his production company Heyday Films, while David Barron joined the series as an executive producer on Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire. Mike Newell became the first British director of the series when he was chosen for the fourth film; Newell was considered to direct the first film before he dropped out.