How long does it take to read Harry Potter (Series) 1-7?

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter (Series) 1-7 by J. K. Rowling takes about 62 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 62 hours 46 minutes

A long haul

First published 1999. 3,424 pages, about 941,600 words.

126 days (about 18 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Minutes a day Your reading speed: 250 words a minute

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute	104 hours 37 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute	62 hours 46 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute	39 hours 14 minutes

The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The Harry Potter books throw you into an amazing fantasy world of witches and wizards, spells, magical creatures, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, and a school of witchcraft and wizardry called Hogwarts. In this school Harry Potter takes many magical classes, plays Quidditch (the sport where you are on a broomstick scoring goals through hoops, and trying to find the magical snitch.), and defeats Voldemort. When Voldemort comes back at him again and again, Harry realizes that Voldemort is invincible, and there is only one way to kill him. With his lessons with Professor Dumbledore, he discovers Voldemort's past, who he was before he killed all those people, why he killed all those people (including Harry Potter's parents), and how he is still alive, but is almost a creature, with snake eyes, and slits for nostrils. This best-selling series is astonishing and breathtaking and will change your life forever, just by reading it.

Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Wizards, Magic, Schools, Children's fiction