All 13 Uses of
gaunt
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
- Malfoy's gaunt, petrified face seemed burned on the inside of his eyes.†
Chpt 9 *
- And then it came to Harry in one shining piece, the memory that had stirred at the sound of the name "Peverell": a filthy old man brandishing an ugly ring in the face of a Ministry official, and he cried aloud, "Marvolo Gaunt!"†
Chpt 22
- Marvolo Gaunt!†
Chpt 22
- Marvolo Gaunt said he was descended from the Peverells!†
Chpt 22
- The ring, the ring that became the Horcrux, Marvolo Gaunt said it had the Peverell coat of arms on it!†
Chpt 22
- "Why not?" said Harry excitedly, "Marvolo Gaunt was an ignorant old git who lived like a pig, all he cared about was his ancestry.†
Chpt 22
- Gaunt said he was descended from the Peverells!†
Chpt 22
- How could the boy know that he had hidden the ring in the Gaunt shack?†
Chpt 27
- No one had ever known him to be related to the Gaunts, he had hidden the connection, the killings had never been traced to him.†
Chpt 27
- Dumbledore had known his middle name… Dumbledore might have made the connection with the Gaunts… Their abandoned home was, perhaps, the least secure of his hiding places, it was there that he would go first… The lake, surely impossible… though was there a slight possibility that Dumbledore might have known some of his past misdeeds, through the orphanage.†
Chpt 27
- He would visit the Gaunt shack first, then, and take Nagini with him.†
Chpt 27
- Marvolo Gaunt's ring lay on the desk before Dumbledore.†
Chpt 33
- When I discovered it, after all those years, buried in the aban-doned home of the Gaunts — the Hallow I had craved most of all, though in my youth I had wanted it for very different reasons — I lost my head, Harry.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(gaunt) very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone