All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- An alarm clock, repaired by Harry several years ago, ticked loudly on the sill, showing one minute to eleven.†
Chpt 3
- Hoping to see you this Friday, I am yours most sincerely, Albus Dumbledore Though he already knew it by heart, Harry had been stealing glances at this missive every few minutes since seven o'clock that evening, when he had first taken up his position beside his bedroom window, which had a reasonable view of both ends of Privet Drive.†
Chpt 3
- The minute hand on the alarm clock reached the number twelve and, at that precise moment, the street-lamp outside the window went out.†
Chpt 3
- It took him a little over ten minutes to track down everything he needed; at last he had managed to extract his Invisibility Cloak from under the bed, screwed the top back on his jar of color-change ink, and forced the lid of his trunk shut on his cauldron.†
Chpt 3
- You can't have had more than three minutes' warning?†
Chpt 4
- But when Harry arrived downstairs ten minutes later, fully dressed and carrying his empty breakfast tray, it was to find Hermione sitting at the kitchen table in great agitation, while Mrs. Weasley tried to lessen her resemblance to half a panda.†
Chpt 5
- Then, with Mrs. Weasley checking her watch every minute or so, they headed farther along the street in search of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, the joke shop run by Fred and George.†
Chpt 6
- One simple incantation and you will enter a top-quality, highly realistic, thirty-minute daydream, easy to fit into the average school lesson and virtually undetectable (side effects include vacant expression and minor drooling).†
Chpt 6
- You'd better get on, Harry, I want the trunks ready tonight, if possible, so we don't have the usual last-minute scramble.†
Chpt 7
- "You'd better get straight on the train, all of you, you've only got a few minutes to go," said Mrs. Weasley, consulting her watch.†
Chpt 7
- It was Neville's turn next: This was a very uncomfortable ten minutes, for Neville's parents, wellknown Aurors, had been tortured into insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange and a couple of Death Eater cronies.†
Chpt 7
- An idea had just occurred to him, a reckless but potentially wonderful idea… In a minute's time, Zabini was going to reenter the Slytherin sixth-year compartment and Malfoy would be sitting there, thinking himself unheard by anybody except fellow Slytherins… If Harry could only enter, unseen, behind him, what might he not see or hear?†
Chpt 7
- Snape did not speak for a minute or so.†
Chpt 8
- He knew that Snape had come to fetch him for this, for the few minutes when he could needle and torment Harry without anyone else listening.†
Chpt 8
- "Hagrid was only a few minutes late," said Hermione.†
Chpt 8
- They avoided Hagrid's eye and returned his cheery wave only half-heartedly when he left the staff table ten minutes later.†
Chpt 9
- Parvati set off for Divination five minutes later looking slightly crestfallen.†
Chpt 9
- A few minutes later, Ron was cleared to do the same subjects as Harry, and the two of them left the table together.†
Chpt 9
- Typically, ten minutes into the lesson Hermione managed to repel Neville's muttered Jelly-Legs Jinx without uttering a single word, a feat that would surely have earned her twenty points for Gryffindor from any reasonable teacher, thought Harry bitterly, but which Snape ignored.†
Chpt 9
- Within ten minutes, the whole place was full of bluish steam.†
Chpt 9
- Ogden Apparated back to the Ministry and returned with reinforcements within fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 10
- When they left the Gryffindor table five minutes later to head down to the Quidditch pitch, they passed Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil.†
Chpt 11
- Harry was still fuming when Hermione returned to their table a few minutes later holding three bottles of butterbeer.†
Chpt 12
- A few minutes later Hermione, who had become so tired of Ron's recent unpleasant behavior that she had not come down to breakfast with them, paused on her way up the table.†
Chpt 14
- Harry raised his eyebrows, but said nothing except, "We'll be starting in about five minutes, you'd better get your boots on."†
Chpt 14
- "Seen Hermione?" asked McLaggen, forcing his way through the throng a minute later.†
Chpt 15
- We've only looked in for five minutes, so I'll have a stroll around the yard while you catch up with Percy.†
Chpt 16
- I'll tell you in a minute," said Harry.†
Chpt 17
- It took Harry only five minutes to realise that his reputa-tion as the best potion-maker in the class was crashing around his ears.†
Chpt 18
- He opened the box just as Slughorn called, Two minutes left, everyone!†
Chpt 18
- Within five minutes, they were climbing through the portrait hole.†
Chpt 18
- 'There!' said Ron, after a minute or so.†
Chpt 18
- They stared at each other for almost a whole minute, before Harry said, 'This is a joke, right?†
Chpt 18
- Then Cadwallader scored again, making things level, but Luna did not seem to have noticed; she appeared singularly uninterested in such mundane things as the score, and kept attempting to draw the crowd's attention to such things as interestingly shaped clouds and the possibility that Zacharias Smith, who had so far failed to maintain possession of the Quaffle for longer than a minute, was suffering from something called "Loser's Lurgy."†
Chpt 19
- He said he'd come at four, it's only a couple of minutes to and he's never been late yet!†
Chpt 20
- The house-elf returned within minutes, followed by a tall young man Harry had no difficulty whatsoever in recognizing as Voldemort.†
Chpt 20
- There," said Hermione, some twenty minutes later, handing back Ron's essay.†
Chpt 21
- He thought hard for several minutes before striding off once more.†
Chpt 21
- "Snape's right, though, isn't he?" said Ron, after staring into a cracked mirror for a minute or two.†
Chpt 21
- After a minute or so, he pulled the Invisibility Cloak on again and resumed his efforts to get into the Room of Requirement, but his heart was not in it.†
Chpt 21
- But Harry was already hurtling back along the corridor and within minutes, he was saying "toffee eclairs" to Dumbledore's gar-goyle, which leapt aside, permitting Harry entrance onto the spiral staircase.†
Chpt 23
- Snape returned ten minutes later.†
Chpt 24 *
- A minute later, he was back in front of Snape, who held out his hand wordlessly for Harry's schoolbag.†
Chpt 24
- Harry had already been called out of the common room to endure fifteen highly unpleasant minutes in the company of Professor McGonagall, who had told him he was lucky not to have been expelled and that she supported wholeheartedly Snape's punishment of detention every Saturday until the end of term.†
Chpt 24
- Once Peeves had vanished, there was silence in the corridors; with only fifteen minutes left until curfew, most people had already returned to their common rooms.†
Chpt 25
- Boiling with anger at Snape, his desire to do something desperate and risky had increased tenfold in the last few minutes.†
Chpt 25
- Then I wish you to go and fetch your Cloak and meet me in the Entrance Hall in five minutes' time.'†
Chpt 25
- 'Good evening, Rosmerta, good evening … forgive me, I'm off to the Hog's Head … no offence, but I feel like a quieter atmosphere tonight…' A minute later they turned the corner into the side street where the Hog's Head's sign creaked a little, though there was no breeze.†
Chpt 25
- Then, after two solid minutes, Dumbledore said quietly, "Oh, surely not.†
Chpt 26
- Sure enough, the greenish light seemed to be growing larger at last, and within minutes, the boat had come to a halt, bumping gently into something that Harry could not see at first, but when he raised his illuminated wand he saw that they had reached a small island of smooth rock in the center of the lake.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.