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[justanopinion2001 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25987

After being thoroughly rattled yesterday, I was looking for an 
escape, so I re-read the end of CoS.  I think this may be the single 
longest sentence in the entire Harry Potter series.  It is in the 
final chapter (p. 328 of American version):

"For nearly a quarter of an hour he spoke into the rapt silence:  He 
told them about hearing the disembodied voice, how Hermione had 
finally realized that he was hearing a basilisk in the pipes; how he 
and Ron had followed the spiders into the forest, that Aragog had 
told them where the last victim of the basilisk had died; how he had 
guessed that Moaning Myrtle had been the victim, and that the 
entrance to the Chamber of Secrets might be in her bathroom . . . ."

85 words.  3 commas.  2 semi-colons.  1 colon.  1 elipse.  Can anyone 
top this?

Laura (sending her prayers to all fellow Americans)