HBO’s Harry Potter Season 1 Rating Revealed

Published Jul 21, 2026, 9:09 AM EDT Rianna is the Movie News Editor for ScreenRant. After earning her BA in Film Studies, she began her career as an entertainment writer, contributing to several publications before joining ScreenRant. Her dissertation on the impact of streaming on traditional cinema sharpened her focus on the ever-evolving world of film and media. With 6 years in the industry, Rianna continues to cover the stories she loves while also advocating for awareness and representation of rare disabilities, such as Moebius Syndrome, which she lives with. Sign in to your ScreenRant account Harry Potter is taking over HBO. The Harry Potter franchise is coming back, and this time in the form of a series. After seven fantasy novels, eight blockbuster movies, a Broadway play, and theme parks, HBO has decided to adapt the original novels into a more faithful adaptation. Each season will be adapting one of the novels, with season 1 titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. An official age rating for the upcoming Harry Potter season 1 has been unveiled and is currently listed on HBO Max as TV-14. This means that the program may contain material unsuitable for children under 14 years old, and parents are strongly cautioned. This is a slightly higher rating than the original Warner Bros. movie, The Philosopher's Stone, which the first season of the HBO series is based on. The 2001 movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was rated PG-13, meaning that the rating for HBO's adaptation suggests more violence, frightening scenes, and mature themes, but still available to a younger audience. Most of the Harry Potter movies had a PG-13 rating, including the later movies, which certainly grew darker and far more violent as the characters aged, and the threats grew more significant. HBO has become renowned worldwide for its most ambitious and successful fantasy adaptations. With series such as Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin's novels. The Game of Thrones universe is certainly far more explicit than its upcoming Harry Potter series, but with season 1 already set at a higher age rating than the original movie adaptation, it begs the question of how dark will HBO's adaptation truly be. More to come...