[HPforGrownups] Harry's Word Count

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 14447

Sam said:

> My British-version copy of GoF looks a lot thicker than my 
> British-version of PoA - but this is largely due to larger font and 
> bigger spacing in GoF, compared to PoA which is rather 'cramped' by 
> comparison. Does anyone know the word count (or at least, have a 
> rough estimate of the word count) to properly compare the length of 
> the two? And, for that matter, what's the number of words in SS/PS 
> and CoS?

These are approximate word counts for the books:

SS/PS - 78,500
CoS - 87,000
PoA - 106,500
GoF - 196,000

So, GoF is nearly twice the size of PoA!   

Phew... it took me ages to count all those words.

Neil
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