LEGO Harry Potter

LEGO Harry Potter was LEGO Theme that started in 2001, to coincide with the release of the first film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sets for the first five films have been released to coincide with the release of the movies.

Warner Bros. Entertainment released on 25 June, 2010 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 a video game developed by Traveller's Tales, covering "the Philisopher's Stone", "the Chamber of Secrets", "the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "The Goblet of Fire". LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, covering the last three installments of the series, was released on 11 November, 2011.

Ten more sets, released between October 2010 and June 2011, have been produced including moments from Years: 1-7.

The books LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World and LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World respectively cover the creation of the sets and the characters featured within them.

The sets include:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001-2002)
The first film saw the largest amount of sets, with fourteen being made in total. To start with, only eleven were produced, three more were made the following year in 2002.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002-2003)
"Help rescue Harry Potter and Ron from the giant spider Aragog in the Dark Forest!"

- Official description of the Aragog in the Dark Forest LEGO set

The second film had ten sets made in total, four less than its predecessor. These sets were designed to be combined with sets from the first film to form a larger Hogwarts setting. For some unknown reasons, Hermione does not appear in any of these sets.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
The third film saw eleven sets released, including the only Harry Potter Mini set. In addition, the minifigures became fleshed toned, following Lego's universal change from yellow toned figures for all minifigures based on real people or characters.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
The fourth film saw only four sets released. This meant many key scenes and characters were missing, most prominently the Third Task, Cedric Diggory and Fleur Delacour. The Harry Potter minifigure headpiece was redesigned as well.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
There was only one set for the Order of The Phoenix to mark the supposed "retirement" of the theme.

Years: 1-7 (2010-2011)
It was announced at the 2010 Toy Fair that 6 more Harry Potter LEGO Sets had been produced. They were released October 1, 2010 and they include moments from different movies. The range includes newly designed minifigures and the first appearances of Bellatrix Lestrange, Luna Lovegood, Filius Flitwick and Argus Filch. The LEGO manfacturers added features from accross the books and films to each set, to allow for more inventive playing, examples of this are: Aragog in "Hagrid's Hut", and sirius black's head in Hogwarts

Early in October of 2010, The LEGO Group announced the release of another set: Diagon Alley was released in January 2011. The set features Borgin and Burkes, Gringotts Wizarding Bank and Ollivanders Wand Shop, and includes the first appearances of Fred and George Weasley and Mr. Ollivander. Three other sets (along with two promotional sets) were released on June 1, 2011. These are assumed to be the final sets that LEGO will release under the Harry Potter theme.