Both Uses of
loophole
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
- He thought he could see Kreacher struggling to see a loophole in the instructions he had just been given and waited.†
Chpt 19 *
- Admittedly he had not, as he had with Sirius, looked desperately for some kind of loophole, some way that Dumbledore would come back … he felt in his pocket for the cold chain of the fake Horcrux, which he now carried with him everywhere, not as a talisman, but as a reminder of what it had cost and what remained still to do.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(loophole) something left out of a rule that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation -- especially in the text of a law or contract