Space fantasy, heroic epic, and operatic drama. It's not speculative fiction at all.
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Hedwig (HP's owl familiar) performs useful functions for protagonist as well, in extremis on multiple occasions, right up to the noble sacrifice.
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you can have spec fic fantasy; Harry Potter religiously avoids doing the math, leading to an enormous amount of fan industry doing the math and being amused at itself at the absurd results, and occasional JK forays into pretending to do the math which turn out even worse
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whereas the Crowning Moment of Awesome lightspeed attack in that movie a minute ago is either not a spec el or a spec el done so badly as to completely break the world model
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