HBP Audiobook (possible spoiler)

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No: HPFGUIDX 130686

> 117 characters!!  Sounds like a lot of stuff is going to be 
> happening in this book!  Incidently, does anyone know how many 
> characters there are in the other books?  I've never even thought of 
> this before, but this would be what causes a spoiler, ie if there 
> are usually much less of much more speaking characters!
> 
> Sherry:
> 
> I remember after GOF, that Jim dale said he voiced 125 characters.  He was
> given that book in segments, a few pages at a time.  The original audio book
> didn't even give the title at the beginning, just said this is the fourth
> book in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series!  Remember, the title was a closely
> guarded secret.  So, he's done a few less voices for the new book.  But  GOF
> had a lot of bit characters, people we never saw after the world cup or the
> first chapter in little Hangleton for instance.  All the books are like
> that.
> 
> Sherry

Antosha

Thanks, Sherry! That sounds about right--when I'm reading the book to my younger 
daughter there're always these peculiar characters--mirrors, folks on the street, etc.--who 
come and go quickly.

When you think about it, Harry's close circle--let's say the DA--is 30 people. Add another 
10 for the Hogwarts staff and faculty that Harry actually talks with, 20 or so for Malfoy, his 
cronies and the other Hogwarts students that Harry isn't close to, a half-dozen for the 
members of the Weasley clan who don't go to school, the same for members of the Order, 
another 10-plus for your typical contingent of Death Eaters/villainous types.... You've 
reached close to 75, and that's just the standing cast! No strange shop-keepers, no 
magical creatures, no pub-dwellers, no talking tea pots, no odd people in the street... 119 
sounds fairly normal to me, now that I think about it.