Both Uses of
calamity
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
- Simply to be alive to watch the sun rise over the sparkling snowy hillside ought to have been the greatest treasure on earth, yet he could not appreciate it: His senses had been spiked by the calamity of losing his want.†
Chpt 18 *
- How neat, how elegant, not to waste any more lives, but to give the dangerous task to the boy who had already been marked for slaughter, and whose death would not be a calamity, but another blow against Voldemort.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(calamity) a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it