All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He seemed unable to prevent himself from glancing upward every minute or so.†
Chpt 1
- Minutes previously, Harry had plunged his hand into this mulch, experienced a stabbing pain in the fourth finger of his right hand, and withdrawn it to see a lot of blood.†
Chpt 2
- After several minutes' thought, Harry tore the obituary out of the Prophet, folded it carefully, and tucked it inside the first volume of Practical Defensive Magic and its Use against the Dark Arts.†
Chpt 2
- They'll be here in about five minutes," he said, and when one of the Dursleys replied, he left the room.†
Chpt 3
- All right then," he went on, tying up the sack with the fake Potters' clothes in it and leading the way back to the door, "I make it three minutes until we're supposed to leave.†
Chpt 4
- It's supposed to leave in three minutes, if you want to take it.†
Chpt 5
- You and Hagrid were third and," she checked her watch, "if they made it, George and Lupin aught to be back in about a minute."†
Chpt 5
- The minutes stretched into what might as well have been years.†
Chpt 5
- Harry also tried tying the laces of his trainers by magic (the resultant knot took several minutes to untie by hand) and, purely for the pleasure of it, turned the orange robes on Ron's Chudley Cannons posters bright blue.†
Chpt 7
- After a minute or so she called, "He's gone!†
Chpt 7
- Within minutes a procession had formed, which began to snake its way up through the garden toward the marquee.†
Chpt 8
- After a minute or two, Ron said, "You know, we're not far from the Leaky Cauldron here, it's only in Charing Cross — "†
Chpt 9
- Ron appeared, panting, a minute later, his wand ready in his hand.†
Chpt 10
- He watched Voldemort's white, snakelike face vanishing into darkness, those red eyes fixed pitilessly on the thrashing elf whose death would occur within minutes, whenever he succumbed to the desperate thirst that the burning poison caused its victim … But here, Harry's imagination could go no further, for he could not see how Kreacher had escaped.†
Chpt 10
- It was several minutes before Kreacher hiccupped himself into silence.†
Chpt 10
- She leapt up from the table and hurtled from the room, shouting as she went, "I'll be back in a minute!†
Chpt 12
- Thanks, Kreacher, but I'll be back in a minute — er — bathroom.†
Chpt 12
- Harry, who was now sleeping in Sirius's room, lay in bed with his wandlight trained on the old photograph of his father, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew, and muttered the plan to himself for another ten minutes.†
Chpt 12
- "Right then," said Hermione, checking her watch. she ought to be here in about five minutes.†
Chpt 12
- Little more than a minute later, there was a tiny pop and a little Ministry witch with flyaway gray hair Apparated feet from them, blinking a little in the sudden brightness: the sun had just come out from behind a cloud.†
Chpt 12
- Within two minutes, Ron stood before them, as small and ferrety as the sick wizard, and wearing the navy blue robes that had been folded in his bag.†
Chpt 12
- He had to wait ten minutes, but it seemed much longer to Harry, skulking alone in the sick-splattered alleyway beside the door concealing the Stunned Mafalda.†
Chpt 12
- I reckon we've got five minutes if that — " Hermione's Patronus vanished with a pop as she turned a horror struck face to Harry.†
Chpt 13
- He could not help remem-bering what had happened the last time they had Apparated to the first place Hermione had thought of — how Death Eaters had found them within minutes.†
Chpt 14
- After a minute or two, Ron broke the silence.†
Chpt 14
- Inside the tent, Harry closed his eyes, willing someone to ask the question he needed answered, and after a minute that seemed ten, Dean obliged: he was (Harry remembered with a jolt) an ex-boyfriend of Ginny's too.†
Chpt 15
- The rain was pounding the tent, tears were pouring down Hermione's face, and the excitement of a few minutes before had vanished as if it had never been, a short-lived firework that had flared and died, leaving everything dark, wet, and cold.†
Chpt 15
- After a few minutes she returned, her sopping hair plastered to her face.†
Chpt 15
- I wanted to come back the minute I'd Disapparated, but I walked straight into a gang of Snatchers, Hermione, and I couldn't go any-where!†
Chpt 19
- For ten minutes or so Ron tapped and muttered, Hermione turned the pages of her book, and Harry continued to practice with the blackthorn wand.†
Chpt 20
- They stood for a minute or two looking toward the Burrow, their hands shadowing their eyes, but all they could make out were the high hedges and trees of the orchard, which afforded the crooked little house protection from Muggle eyes.†
Chpt 20
- What appeared to be a fine golden chains wove around the pictures linking them together, but after examining them for a minute or so, Harry realized that the chains were actually one work repeated a thousand times in golden ink: friends… friends… friends… Harry felt a great rush of affection for Luna.†
Chpt 21
- Oh, why did we go there?" groaned Hermione after a few minutes' silence.†
Chpt 22
- A minute ago you told us you never saw the mark on the stone properly!†
Chpt 22
- Didn't they realize how far they had traveled in the last few minutes?†
Chpt 22
- Listeners, I'd like to invite you now to join us in a minute's silence in memory of Ted Tonks, Dirk Cresswell, Bathilda Bagshot, Gornuk, and the unnamed, but no less regretted, Muggles murdered by the Death Eaters.†
Chpt 22
- ang on a minute, Greyback!†
Chpt 23 *
- After a minute or so he realized that they had, after all, come to the right place, for here were Bill and Fleur, Dean and Luna, gathering around him as he knelt over the elf.†
Chpt 24
- Could you give us a few minutes?†
Chpt 25
- Fleur, Harry noticed, was merely playing with her food; she glanced at the window every few minutes; however, Bill returned before they had finished their first course, his long hair tangled by the wind.†
Chpt 25
- Seeking to gloss over the sticky moment, he said, "We've just been checking the last-minute stuff, Griphook.†
Chpt 26
- It had been impossible to decide how they were going to do it, because the goblin rarely left Harry, Ron, and Hermione alone together for more than five minutes at a time: "He could give my mother lessons," growled Ron, as the goblin's long fingers kept appearing around the edges of doors.†
Chpt 26
- After five minutes or so, Harry lost some of his immediate dread that the dragon was going to throw them off, for it seemed intent on nothing but getting as far away from its underground prison as poss-ible; but the question of how and when they were to dismount remained rather frightening.†
Chpt 27
- I shall meet you in the Great Hall in twenty minutes with my House.†
Chpt 30
- "I shall expect you and the Slytherins in the Great Hall in twenty minutes also." said Professor McGonagall.†
Chpt 30
- I managed to make contact with Aberforth and he tipped me off ten minutes ago that Hogwarts was going to make a fight of it, so here I am.†
Chpt 30
- It was five minutes until midnight, and though he now knew what the last Horcrux was, he was no closer to discovering where it was… Generations of students had failed to find the diadem; that suggested that it was not in Ravenclaw Tower — but if not there, where?†
Chpt 31
- It was clear, as the three of them stepped back into the corridor upstairs, that in the minutes that they had spent in the Room of Requirement the situation within the castle had deteriorated severely: The walls and ceiling were shaking worse than ever; dust filled the air, and through the nearest window, Harry saw bursts of green and red light so close to the foot of the castle that he knew the Death Eaters must be very near to entering the place.†
Chpt 31
- They had traveled on mere minutes when Harry saw light ahead, and Yaxley and Dolohov stepped out into a clearing that Harry knew had been the place where the monstrous Aragog had once lived.†
Chpt 34
- The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.