Since the release of the first four chapters of Chamber of Secrets a couple of weeks ago on Pottermore, fans have been comparing these new chapters to ones in Philosopher’s Stone. To get a real look at whether or not these first four chapters revealed more or less than we got with Philosopher’s Stone I decided to break it down analytically.

I specifically looked at the number of red quills (new information from J.K. Rowling) and collectible objects (items, books, chocolate frog cards, galleons, every flavoured beans, etc.) per moment and per chapter. Since the new information from J.K. Rowling seems to be what we are all most interested in, I broke that info down a little further into words per moment and per chapter.

The results were very interesting. The first four chapters of Chamber of Secrets seemed to have much less info from J.K. Rowling than Philosopher’s Stone at first glance. However, since there is much more information to reveal about the Wizarding World than the Dursley’s muggle world I decided it was more effective to compare only the first four chapters of Philosopher’s Stone to Chamber of Secrets to see how the two match up when looking at only moments occurring before Harry gets to Hogwarts.

This evens the two out, although Philosopher’s Stone still has more red quills per moment and chapter than Chamber of Secrets. Taking an even closer look though, we can see this evens out almost perfectly when examining new words from J.K. Rowling in the first four chapters, Philosopher’s Stone contains 1,857 new words while Chamber of Secrets contains 1,859 new words.

As for objects per moment and per chapter, the first four chapters of Chamber of Secrets indicate that we are likely to get far more collectible objects this book than we did previously.

I’ve included the statistics below, so have a look for yourself how Chamber of Secrets and Philosopher’s Stone match up on Pottermore.

Red Quill per Moment:
Philosopher’s Stone: 0.67
First four chapters of Chamber of Secrets: 0.27
First four chapters of Philosopher’s Stone: 0.44

Objects per Moment:
Philosopher’s Stone: 1.49
First four chapters of Chamber of Secrets: 2.82
First four chapters of Philosopher’s Stone: 0.89

New J.K. Rowling Words per Moment:
First four chapters of Chamber of Secrets: 169.00
First four chapters of Philosopher’s Stone: 208.33

Red Quill per Chapter:
Philosopher’s Stone: 1.76
First four chapters of Chamber of Secrets: 0.75
First four chapters of Philosopher’s Stone: 1.00

Object per Chapter:
Philosopher’s Stone: 3.94
First four chapters of Chamber of Secrets: 7.75
First four chapters of Philosopher’s Stone: 2.00

New J.K. Rowling Words per Chapter:
First four chapters of Chamber of Secrets: 464.75
First four chapters of Philosopher’s Stone: 464.25