All 50 Uses of
minute
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- 'He was sixteen, for your information,' snarled Dudley, 'and he was out cold for twenty minutes after I'd finished with him and he was twice as heavy as you.†
Chpt 1
- Dear Mr Potter, We have received intelligence that you performed the Patronus Charm at twenty-three minutes past nine this evening in a Muggle-inhabited area and in the presence of a Muggle.†
Chpt 2
- Dear Mr Potter, Further to our letter of approximately twenty-two minutes ago, the Ministry of Magic has revised its decision to destroy your wand forthwith.†
Chpt 2
- A few minutes later he heard the slamming of car doors, the rumble of an engine, and the unmistakeable sound of the car sweeping out of the drive.†
Chpt 3
- We've got about fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 3
- We've got about a minute, I think.†
Chpt 3
- Harry asked, but Lupin said quietly, 'In a minute.'†
Chpt 3
- For a few minutes there was silence but for the chink of plates and cutlery and the scraping of chairs as everyone settled down to their food.†
Chpt 5
- "Yes, but even so …" said Mr Weasley, beaming at them fondly They bought their tickets instead from a sleepy-looking guard (Harry handled the transaction, as Mr Weasley was not very good with Muggle money) and five minutes later they were boarding an underground train that rattled them off towards the centre of London.†
Chpt 7
- After about a minute, though it felt much longer to Harry, a chink of golden light illuminated his feet and, widening, rose up his body, until it hit him in the face and he had to blink to stop his eyes watering.†
Chpt 7
- I've just sent an owl to your home but you've obviously missed it — an urgent message came ten minutes ago —"†
Chpt 7
- Quick, Harry, we should have been there five minutes ago!†
Chpt 7
- …awareness of the illegality of his actions, having received a previous written warning from the Ministry of Magic on a similar charge, produce a Patronus Charm in a Muggle-inhabited area, in the presence of a Muggle, on the second of August at twenty-three minutes past nine, which constitutes an offence under Paragraph C of the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, 1875, and also under Section 13 of the International Confederation of Warlocks' Statute of Secrecy.†
Chpt 8
- Though members of the Order of the Phoenix came and went regularly, sometimes staying for meals, sometimes only for a few minutes of whispered conversation, Mrs Weasley made sure that Harry and the others were kept well out of earshot (whether Extendable or normal) and nobody, not even Sirius, seemed to feel that Harry needed to know anything more than he had heard on the night of his arrival.†
Chpt 9
- But Harry, closing his bedroom door behind him some ten HARRY Pun ER minutes later, could not think Mrs Weasley silly.†
Chpt 9
- It took them twenty minutes to reach King's Cross on foot and nothing more eventful happened during that time than Sirius scaring a couple of cats for Harry's entertainment.†
Chpt 10
- I swear I'm going to report him, he's only had his badge three minutes and he's using it to bully people worse than ever… where's Crookshanks?'†
Chpt 10
- 'What's the matter?' asked Hermione five minutes later, catching up with Harry and Ron halfway across the common room as they all headed towards breakfast.†
Chpt 12
- Professor Binns, their ghost teacher, had a wheezy, droning voice that was almost guaranteed to cause severe drowsiness within ten minutes, five in warm weather.†
Chpt 12
- Harry heard just enough within the first ten minutes to appreciate dimly that in another teacher's hands this subject might have been mildly interesting, but then his brain disengaged, and he spent the remaining hour and twenty minutes playing hangman on a corner of his parchment with Ron, while Hermione shot them filthy looks out of the corner of her eye.†
Chpt 12
- Harry heard just enough within the first ten minutes to appreciate dimly that in another teacher's hands this subject might have been mildly interesting, but then his brain disengaged, and he spent the remaining hour and twenty minutes playing hangman on a corner of his parchment with Ron, while Hermione shot them filthy looks out of the corner of her eye.†
Chpt 12
- They did not stop arguing all the way down to Snape's dungeon, which gave Harry plenty of time to reflect that between Neville and Ron he would be lucky ever to have two minutes of conversation with Cho that he could look back on without wanting to leave the country.†
Chpt 12
- The ingredients had to be added to the cauldron in precisely the right order and quantities; the mixture had to be stirred exactly the right number of times, firstly in clockwise, then in anti-clockwise directions; the heat of the flames on which it was simmering had to be lowered to exactly the right level for a specific number of minutes before the final ingredient was added.†
Chpt 12
- 'A light silver vapour should now be rising from your potion,' called Snape, with ten minutes left to go.†
Chpt 12
- Add powdered moonstone, stir three times counter-clockwise, allow to simmer for seven minutes then add two drops of syrup of hellebore.†
Chpt 12
- He had not added syrup of hellebore, but had proceeded straight to the fourth line of the instructions after allowing his potion to simmer for seven minutes.†
Chpt 12
- The rest of the class arrived over the next five minutes.†
Chpt 12
- By the time they had all finished reading the introduction of the book, they had barely ten minutes left for dream interpretation.†
Chpt 12
- For a couple of minutes the room was full of the sound of scratching quills on parchment.†
Chpt 12
- Several silent minutes passed.†
Chpt 12
- After several more minutes had passed, however, Harry was not the only one watching Hermione.†
Chpt 12
- After a minute or so she rolled up the parchment and tapped it with her wand; it sealed itself seamlessly so that he could not open it.†
Chpt 12
- Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall both spent the first fifteen minutes of their lessons lecturing the class on the importance of OWLs.†
Chpt 13
- Wondering vaguely how many elves had now been set free whether they wanted to be or not, Harry uncorked his ink bottle, dipped his quill into it, then held it suspended an inch above the smooth yellowish surface of his parchment, thinking hard… but after a minute or so he found himself staring into the empty grate, at a complete loss for what to say.†
Chpt 14
- I didn't think anyone would be up here this early… I only remembered five minutes ago, it's my mum's birthday.†
Chpt 14
- This time they had been flying for barely three minutes when Angelinas whistle sounded.†
Chpt 14
- After a few minutes she got to her ieet and began to pace the room in Trelawney's wake, listening to her conversations with students and posing questions here and there.†
Chpt 15
- All the while, Professor Umbridge stood a few feet away, making notes on that clipboard, and when the bell rang she descended the silver ladder first and was waiting for them all when they reached their Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson ten minutes later.†
Chpt 15
- In… in a minute.†
Chpt 15 *
- It was very hard to concentrate; even though he knew Sirius was not due in the fire until much later, he could not help glancing into the flames every few minutes just in case.†
Chpt 17
- He had no idea how he was going to see the Snitch in this weather; he was having enough difficulty seeing the one Bludger with which they were practising; a minute into the practice it almost unseated him and he had to use the Sloth Grip Roll to avoid it.†
Chpt 18
- Listen, Neville, can you take it in turns to practise with Ron and Hermione for a couple of minutes so I can walk around and see how the rest are doing?†
Chpt 18
- It became clear after ten minutes, however, that Ron was not capable of eating anything more and Harry thought it best to get him down to the changing rooms.†
Chpt 19
- Harry and Ron pulled on their robes (Ron attempted to do his up backto-front for several minutes before Alicia took pity on him and went to help), then sat down to listen to the pre-match talk while the babble of voices outside grew steadily louder as the crowd came pouring out of the castle towards the pitch.†
Chpt 19
- Harry realised he had been stationary in midair for over a minute, watching the progress of the match without sparing a thought for the whereabouts of the Snitch; horrified, he went into a dive and started circling the pitch again, staring around, trying to ignore the chorus now thundering through the stadium: 'WEASLEY IS OUR K1NC, WEASLEY IS OUR KING…'†
Chpt 19
- CHAPTER TWENTY Hagrid's Talc Harry sprinted up to the boys' dormitories to fetch the Invisibility Cloak and the Marauder's Map from his trunk; he was so quick that he and Ron were ready to leave at least five minutes before Hermione hurried back down from the girls' dormitories, wearing scarf, gloves and one of her own knobbly elf hats.†
Chpt 20
- They walked for about ten minutes until they reached a place where the trees stood so closely together that it was as dark as twilight and there was no snow at all on the ground.†
Chpt 21
- A minute passed in which the class continued to peer nervously over their shoulders and around trees for a first glimpse of whatever it was that was coming.†
Chpt 21
- The arrival of Ron, Hermione and Neville brought this depressing discussion to an end, and within five minutes the room was full enough to prevent Harry seeing Angelina's burning, reproachful looks.†
Chpt 21
- We'll start with the Impediment Jinx, for ten minutes, then we can get out the cushions and try Stunning again.'†
Chpt 21
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.