All 21 Uses of
content
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry looked around; all three of the Dursleys were cowering with their arms over their heads as their glasses bounced up and down on their skulls, their contents flying everywhere.†
Chpt 3
- There are only two people in the whole world who know the full contents of the prophecy made about you and Lord Voldemort, and they are both standing in this smelly, spidery broom shed.†
Chpt 4
- A great contentment stole over him; he grinned across at Ron, who grinned back lazily.†
Chpt 9 *
- The last time he had disturbed its contents, he had seen much more than he would have wished.†
Chpt 10
- Dumbledore tipped the silvery contents of the bottle into the Pensieve, where they swirled and shimmered, neither liquid nor gas.†
Chpt 10
- He thought for a moment that McLaggen might punch him, but he contented himself with an ugly grimace and stormed away, growling what sounded like threats to thin air.†
Chpt 11
- Harry told Ron and Hermione, pulling open the parchment and quickly read-ing its contents.†
Chpt 12
- The squat, bandy-legged man with long, straggly, ginger hair jumped and dropped an ancient suitcase, which burst open, releasing what looked like the entire contents of a junk shop window.†
Chpt 12
- And he began scrabbling on the ground to retrieve the contents of his suitcase with every appearance of a man eager to be gone.†
Chpt 12
- He swilled the contents of the Pensieve as Harry had seen him swill them before, much as a gold prospector sifts for gold.†
Chpt 13
- Riddle took off the lid and tipped the contents onto his bed without looking at them.†
Chpt 13
- Harry noticed that the contents proved difficult to empty into the Pensieve, as though they had congealed slightly; did memories go bad?†
Chpt 17
- Hermione had left her stool and was halfway towards Siughorn's desk before the rest of the class had realised it was time to move, and by the time Harry, Ron and Ernie returned to the table, she had already tipped the contents of her phial into her cauldron and was kindling a fire underneath it.†
Chpt 18
- He turfed out half the contents of his trunk before he found it hiding beneath the rolled-up socks in which he was still keeping his bottle of lucky potion, Felix Felicis.†
Chpt 18
- Harry got to his feet and bent once more over the rippling silver contents of the stone basin until his face touched them.†
Chpt 20
- …Prince's version of "An Elixir to Induce Euphoria," which seemed not only to meet Slughorn's instructions, but which might (Harry's heart leapt as the thought struck him) put Slughorn into such a good mood that he would be prepared to hand over that memory if Harry could persuade him to taste some…… "Well, now, this looks absolutely wonderful," said Slughorn an hour and a half later, clapping his hands together as he stared down into the sunshine yellow contents of Harry's cauldron.†
Chpt 22
- "And now," said Dumbledore, placing the stone basin upon the desk and emptying the contents of the bottle into it.†
Chpt 23
- The tiny little Charms master was bobbing his way toward them, and Hermione was the only one who had managed to turn vinegar into wine; her glass flask was full of deep crimson liquid, whereas the contents of Harry's and Ron's were still murky brown.†
Chpt 24
- There were winged catapults and Fanged Frisbees, some still with enough life in them to hover halfheartedly over the mountains of other forbidden items; there were chipped bottles of congealed potions, hats, jewels, cloaks; there were what looked like dragon eggshells, corked bottles whose contents still shimmered evilly, several rusting swords, and a heavy, bloodstained axe.†
Chpt 24
- He tipped the contents of the goblet into Dumbledore's open mouth.†
Chpt 26
- It had been here, in this very room, that Dumbledore had told him that he was to confide the contents of their lessons to nobody but Ron and Hermione.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied