All 10 Uses of
assume
in
Harry Potter (#3) and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed the rest of the school along the platform and out onto a rough mud track, where at least a hundred stagecoaches awaited the remaining students, each pulled, Harry could only assume, by an invisible horse, because when they climbed inside and shut the door, the coach set off all by itself, bumping and swaying in procession.†
Chpt 5
- So the boggart sitting in the darkness within has not yet assumed a form.†
Chpt 7
- What you need to do is force it to assume a shape that you find amusing.†
Chpt 7 *
- "When the boggart bursts out of this wardrobe, Neville, and sees You, it will assume the form of Professor Snape," said Lupin.†
Chpt 7
- The story of the boggart assuming Snape's shape, and the way that Neville had dressed it in his grandmother's clothes, had traveled through the school like wildfire.†
Chpt 8
- Ron called Professor McGonagall a lot of names that greatly annoyed Hermione; Hermione assumed an "all-for-the-best" expression that made Ron even angrier, and Harry had to endure everyone in the class talking loudly and happily about what they were going to do first, once they got into Hogsmeade.†
Chpt 8
- "Well," said Lupin, frowning slightly, "I assumed that if the boggart faced you, it would assume the shape of Lord Voldemort."†
Chpt 8
- "Well," said Lupin, frowning slightly, "I assumed that if the boggart faced you, it would assume the shape of Lord Voldemort."†
Chpt 8
- "I know that, but we can't prove it," said Wood bitterly, "And we've been practicing all those moves assuming we're playing Slytherin, and instead it's Hufflepuff, and their style's quite different.†
Chpt 9
- "I assume that's why you didn't tell me, Sirius?" he said casually over Pettigrews head.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(assume as in: I assume it's true) to accept something as true without proof