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What’s the longest Harry Potter book?

By David Osborn

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series, yet it is the second shortest film at 2 hours and 18 minutes.

How many pages is the biggest Harry Potter book?

Book: 759 pages.Movies: Part 1: 146 minutes. Part 2: 130 minutes.

Why Harry Potter is banned?

Banned and forbidden from discussion for referring to magic and witchcraft, for containing actual cursed and spells, and for characters that use “nefarious means” to attain goals. A pastor at St. Edward Catholic School in Nashville (TN) expressed concern about the heretical lessons students could learn from the series.

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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.Sophie’s Choice by William Styron.Moby Dick by Herman Melville.The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.

What book has the most pages?

The Guinness Book of World Records gives the honor to Marcel Proust’s elephantine Remembrance of Things Past, weighing in at 9,609,000 characters (including spaces). Other commentators cite Henry Darger’s In the Realms of the Unreal, a 15,000 page, handwritten tome that has yet to see print.

The first book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series — The Lightning Thief — has 86,826 words. True, it goes over 80,000, but it stays under 90,000. The longest book in this series — at 97,069 words — is the fifth, The Last Olympian.

Is Harry Potter based on the Bible?

While Rowling said that “Hogwarts is a multifaith school,” these quotes, of course, are distinctly Christian. The second is a direct quote of Jesus from Matthew 6:19, the first from 1 Corinthians 15:26. As Hermione tells Harry shortly after he sees the graves, his parents’ message means “living beyond death.

Is J. K. Rowling richer than the Queen?

Some casual facts for you: Not only have the Harry Potter books sold more than 500 million copies, but they’ve also been turned into a massively successful film series and they’re the inspiration for three whole amusement parks. So, yeah, J. K. Rowling is rich. In fact, she’s richer than the Queen of England.

You may be looking for the Harry Potter series’ author of the same name. J. K. Rowling was a Muggle author. Despite being a Muggle, she had a connection to the wizarding world for an unknown reason, and was an acquaintance of Albus Dumbledore.