OoP SPOILER: Number of New Characters

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 59829

OK I may be missing something here but surely it doesn't necessarily follow that all 125 voices in GoF or all 134 voices in OoP will be named characters (new or otherwise). How many voices are there in the previous books that are just that voices (un-named people who speak). Just as an example here's list of most of the ones from the previous books:

BOOK 1
1) Whisperer 1
2) Whisperer 2
3) Receptionist at the Railview Hotel.
4) Unnamed person in the Leaky Cauldron 1
5) Unnamed person in the Leaky Cauldron 2
6) Witch in Apothecary
7) Boy outside Broom shop
8) Goblin at Gringotts
9) Mystery Child 1
10) Mystery Child 2
11) Mystery Child 3
12) Mystery Child 4
13) Mystery Child 5
14) Mystery Child 6
15) Unnamed Ravenclaw

BOOK 2
1) News Reporter
2) Witch carrying fingernails.
3) Wizard at door of Flourish and Blotts
4) Photographer.
5) Spider

BOOK 3
1) Square jawed wizard
2) Little boy
3) Father
4) Manager of Flourish and Blotts
5) Witch in Magical Menagerie
6) Ravenclaw Girl
7) Hufflepuff 5th year
8) Sweet shop owner
9) Mystery Gryffindor 1
10) Mystery Gryffindor 2
11) Mystery Gryffindor 3
12) Mystery Gryffindor 4
13) Mystery Gryffindor 5
14) Person form the committee 4 the D of D creatures

BOOK 4
1) House elf
2) House elf
3) Riddle's maid
4) Riddle's Cook
5) Woman at the bar
6) Man at the bar
7) Landlord
8) Dot's friend
9) Witch Mother at QWC
10) Baby Wizard "You bust slug"
11) Ministry Wizard
12) Ministry Wizard
13) Saleswizard
14) Ministry Witch
15) Ministry Witch
16) Person in crowd
17) 6th Year
18) Merman
19) Merman
20) Juror who thanks Bagman
21) Witch with Crouch Jr (Mrs Lestrange ?)

Those are a selection of a list of all the "voices" in the previous 4 books that I put together. "So what?" you may ask, well surely those voices are going to count toward the total number of voices that Jim Dale is providing? If this is the case then just within GoF, 21/125 voices are not actual characters but "non-entities" -I apologise to these un-named "voices" ;)- and that's not even a full list. So unless we know how many "voices" rather than named characters there are in OoP, you can't really work out how many characters are going to appear can you? So we can't really say there are nine new characters and presume they are people like Mundungus Fletcher, for all we know we could have exactly the same set of named speaking characters (VERY unlikely I know) and the rest, including the extra nine, could be "voices" like this list.


Lynn wrote:
> First, there are some posts focusing on just GoF
> but from this post it suggests that he was
> speaking about all 4 books so all characters
> covered in the first four are included.  

Cindy also said she interpreted it this way however, (I'm writing this offline so I can't actually check) I thought what the report actually said was that he had recorded 125 voices for the fourth book only (the number of voices he would have done for all 4 books is over 175 let alone 125 - see P.S. below)

HOLLYDAZE!!!
P.S. And in case you're wondering about the list, about 2 years ago, I was really bored so I read through the books and jotted down all the "things" that talked (including objects), there are some missing in this list as it is only a selection though.


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