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[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26218

Laura wrote:

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?
> 

Yes, GoF ch. 34, p. 666 edges out CoS:

"More screams of pain from the wand . . . and then something else 
emerged from its tip . . . the dense shadow of a second head, quickly 
followed by arms and torso  . . . an old man Harry had seen only in a 
dream was now pushing himself out of the end of the wand just as 
Cedric had done . . . and his ghost, or his shadow, or whatever it 
was, fell next to Cedric's, and surveyed Harry and Voldemort, and the 
golden web, and the connected wands, with mild surprise, leaning on 
his walking stick . . . ."

89 words. 9 commas. 0 semi-colons.  0 colons. 5 elipses.

Cindy