All 16 Uses of
dais
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
- Instead of a chained chair, however, there was a raised stone dais in the centre of the pit, on which stood a stone archway that looked so ancient, cracked and crumbling that Harry was amazed the thing was still standing.
Chpt 34dais = platform
- His footsteps echoed loudly as he walked slowly towards the dais.
Chpt 34 *dais = raised platform
- Gripping his wand very tightly, he edged around the dais, but there was nobody there; all that could be seen was the other side of the tattered black veil.
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- The gently rippling veil intrigued him; he felt a very strong inclination to climb up on the dais and walk through it.
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- Harry demanded, for the whispering and murmuring was becoming louder; without really meaning to put it there, he found his foot was on the dais.
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- Something finally slid back into place in his brain; Sirius, captured, bound and tortured, and he was staring at this archway… He took several paces back from the dais and wrenched his eyes from the veil.
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- ...and she led the way back around the dais.
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- He ran a few feet into the new room and felt the floor vanish — He was falling down steep stone step after steep stone step, bouncing on every tier until at last, with a crash that knocked all the breath out of his body, he landed flat on his back in the sunken pit where the stone archway stood on its dais.
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- The back of his legs hit something solid: he had reached the dais where the archway stood.
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- Harry did not wait to see whether it had made contact, but dived off the dais out of the way.
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- As Harry scrambled up again he looked around and saw Malfoy smash into the dais on which Sirius and Bellatrix were now duelling.
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- He was jumping down the steps again, pulling out his wand, as Dumbledore, too, turned towards the dais.
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- Sirius must be just behind the curtain, he, Harry, would pull him back out… But as he reached the ground and sprinted towards the dais, Lupin grabbed Harry around the chest, holding him back.
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- Lupin dragged Harry away from the dais.
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- Mad-Eye Moody had crawled across the room to where Tonks lay, and was attempting to revive her; behind the dais there were still hashes of light, grunts and cries —
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- There was a loud bang and a yell from behind the dais.
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Definition:
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(dais) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it