All 37 Uses of
grave
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
- Striping away the popular image of serene, silver-bearded wisdom, Rita Skeeter reveals the disturbed childhood, the lawless youth, the life-long feuds, and the guilty secrets that Dumbledore carried to his grave, WHY was the man tipped to be the Minister of Magic content to remain a mere headmaster?†
Chpt 2
- Lupin swallowed. "I — I made a grave mistake in marrying Tonks."
Chpt 11grave = serious and solemn
- Keeping his hand closed tightly on the wand in his jacket pocket, Harry moved toward the nearest grave.†
Chpt 16
- Seeing the grave was worse than hearing about it.†
Chpt 16
- The grave was extremely old, weathered so that Harry could hardly make out the name.†
Chpt 16
- Harry told her, a slight edge to his voice, and he set off again, leaving her crouched beside the old grave.†
Chpt 16
- Harry caught it and laid it on his parents' grave.†
Chpt 16
- They had only just reached the grave of the unknown Abbott.†
Chpt 17
- Muggles who've just been laying flowers on your parents' grave?†
Chpt 17
- I know Viktor said it was Grindelwald's mark, but it was definitely on that old grave in Godric's Hollow, and the dates on the headstone were long before Grindelwald came along!†
Chpt 20
- Xenophilius nodded gravely.
Chpt 21gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- That was the name on the grave with the mark on it, in Godric's Hollow," said Hermione, still watching Xenophilius.†
Chpt 21
- The sign of the Death Hallows on Ignotus's grave is conclusive proof!†
Chpt 21
- I looked him up after I saw the mark on his grave; if he'd been anyone famous or done anything important, I'm sure he'd be in one of our books.†
Chpt 22
- "It would tend to give you an edge," agreed Lupin gravely.
Chpt 22gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- ...Harry, tied up and wandless, in grave danger-looking up, up to the topmost window, the highest tower...
Chpt 23 *grave = serious
- And shortly afterward he had set to work, alone, digging the grave in the place that Bill had shown him at the end of the garden, between bushes.†
Chpt 24
- Deeper and deeper Harry sank into the grave, and he knew where Voldemort had been tonight, and whom he had killed in the topmost cell of Nurmengard, and why… And he thought of Wormtail, dead because of one small uncons-cious impulse of mercy…Dumbledore had foreseen that…How much more had he known?†
Chpt 24
- Harry had his retort ready for when they asked him why he had not simply created a perfect grave with his wand, but he did not need it.†
Chpt 24
- Ron sat on the edge of the grave and stripped off his shoes and socks, which he placed on the elf's bare feet.†
Chpt 24
- Harry placed the elf into the grave, arranged his tiny limbs so that he might have been resting, then climbed out and gazed for the last time upon the little body.†
Chpt 24
- And as everybody looked at her, she addressed the dead elf at the bottom of the grave.†
Chpt 24
- Bill raised his wand, and the pile of earth beside the grave rose up into the air and fell neatly upon it, a small, reddish mound.†
Chpt 24
- He knew that Hermione could have done it more neatly, and probably more quickly, but he wanted to mark the spot as he had wanted to dig the grave.†
Chpt 24
- He looked at his handiwork for a few more seconds, then walked away, his scar still prickling a little, and his mind full of those things that had come to him in the grave, ideas that had taken shape in the darkness, ideas both fascinating and terrible.†
Chpt 24
- He heard the authority of his own voice, the conviction, the voice of purpose that had come to him as he dug Dobby's grave.†
Chpt 24
- You dug the grave.†
Chpt 24
- Harry rather thought he was being sneered at for acting like a Muggle, but it did not matter to him whether Griphook approved of Dobby's grave or not.†
Chpt 24
- The room faced the cliff-top garden and the freshly dug grave.†
Chpt 24
- You couldn't have broken into Dumbledore's grave.†
Chpt 25
- Harry looked out of the window at Dobby's grave.†
Chpt 25
- Small green shoots were forcing their way up through the red earth of Dobby's grave now, in a year's time the mound would be covered in flowers.†
Chpt 26
- Looking down on the grave, he wondered yet again how the elf had known where to come to rescue them.†
Chpt 26
- To tell Snape why the boy might return would be foolish, of course; it had been a grave mistake to trust Bellatrix and Malfoy.
Chpt 27grave = serious and solemn
- He had made his choice while he dug Dobby's grave, he had decided to continue along the winding, dangerous path indicated for him by Albus Dumbledore, to accept that he had not been told everything that he wanted to know, but simply to trust.†
Chpt 28
- I took it from the grave of Albus Dumbledore.†
Chpt 32
- He wanted to come to Godric's Hollow, as I am sure you have guessed, because of the grave of Ignotus Peverell.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner