English with Harry Potter

2022-08-23 12:38:37 You're busted, Hermione!

busted (/ˈbʌstəd/ adjective) - informal caught out doing something wrong and therefore in trouble Open / Comment

2022-08-22 09:00:00 Hermione: Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed... or worse, expelled!
Ron: She needs to sort out her priorities!

But Hermione had given Harry something else to think about as he climbed back into bed. The dog was guarding something…What had Hagrid said? Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.
It looked as though Harry had found out where the grubby little package from vault seven hundred and thirteen was. Open / Comment

2022-08-21 09:00:00 Ron: What do they think they're doing?? Keeping a thing like that locked up in a school.
Hermione: You don't use your eyes, do you? Didn't you see what it was standing on?
Ron: I wasn't looking at its feet! I was a bit preoccupied with its heads. Or maybe you didn't notice, there were three!
Hermione: It was standing on a trap door. Which means it wasn't there by accident. It's guarding something.
Harry: Guarding something?
Hermione: That's right. Open / Comment

2022-08-20 11:44:59 knob
1 a round handle on a door or a drawer.

2 a round switch on a machine such as a radio that you use to turn it on and off, etc.

3 round shape like a ball on the surface or end of something.

4 a small piece of something such as butter.

with knobs on (idiom, slang, )
Used to say that something is a more complicated version of what you mention:
'It isn't art—it's just a horror movie with knobs on!' Open / Comment

2022-08-20 11:31:45 Uh, where's the doorknob?

Since words like "knob" comes from the German in which the "k" is pronounced, it is included in the spelling, even though the initial "k" ist not pronounced by English speakers. Open / Comment

2022-08-20 11:19:10 Open / Comment

2022-08-18 11:33:51 All: AHHHHHH

Harry groped for the doorknob — between Filch and death, he’d take Filch.
They fell backward — Harry slammed the door shut, and they ran, they almost flew, back down the corridor. Filch must have hurried off to look for
them somewhere else, because they didn’t see him anywhere, but they hardly cared — all they wanted to do was put as much space as possible between them and that monster. They didn’t stop running until they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady on the seventh floor.
‘Where on earth have you all been?’ she asked, looking at their dressing-gowns hanging off their shoulders and their flushed, sweaty faces.
‘Never mind that – pig snout, pig snout,’ panted Harry, and the
portrait swung forward. They scrambled into the common room and collapsed, trembling into armchairs. Open / Comment

2022-08-16 20:21:51 Filch: Anyone here, my sweet? Come on.
Hermione: Filch is gone.
Ron: Probably thinks this door's locked.
Hermione: It was locked.
Harry: And for good reason.

They were looking straight into the eyes of a monstrous dog, a dog which filled the whole space between ceiling and floor. It had three heads. Three pairs of rolling, mad eyes; three noses, twitching and quivering in their direction; three drooling mouths, saliva hanging in slippery ropes from yellowish fangs.
It was standing quite still, all six eyes staring at them, and Harry knew that the only reason they weren’t already dead was that their sudden appearance had taken it by surprise, but it was quickly getting over that, there was no mistaking what those
thunderous growls meant. Open / Comment

2022-08-15 09:00:00 Harry: Quick! Let’s hide though that door! It's locked!
Ron: That's it, we're done for!
Hermione: Oh, move over! Alohomora. Get in.
Ron: Alohomora?
Hermione: Standard book of spells, Chapter 7. Open / Comment

2022-08-14 11:33:25 Harry: Does anyone feel like...we shouldn't be here?
Hermione: We're not supposed to be here. This is the 3rd floor. It's forbidden.
Harry: Let's go.
Ron: It's Filch's cat!
Harry: Run! Open / Comment