All 17 Uses of
ominous
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
- The stew skidded the length of the table and came to a halt just before the end, leaving a long black burn on the wooden surface; the flagon of Butterbeer fell with a crash, spilling its contents everywhere; the bread knife slipped off the board and landed, point down and quivering ominously, exactly where Sirius's right hand had been seconds before.†
Chpt 5
- They had been talking in low voices, but as the heavy door swung closed behind Harry an ominous silence fell.†
Chpt 8
- It was an odd, unsettled sort of day; one moment the carriage was full of sunlight and the next they were passing beneath ominously grey clouds.†
Chpt 10
- 'Its a figure of speech!' said Nearly Headless Nick, now so annoyed his head was trembling ominously on his partially severed neck.†
Chpt 11
- the ominous sound of Snape's dungeon door creaking open
Chpt 12 *ominous = threatening (foreshadowing ill fortune)
- 'Don't be silly, of course there is,' said Hermione, and Harry saw, with an ominous feeling, that her face was suddenly alight with the kind of fervour that SPEW usually inspired in her.†
Chpt 15
- Dolores Umbridge was standing in the doorway wrapped in a green tweed cloak that greatly enhanced her resemblance to a giant toad, and was smiling in the horrible, sickly, ominous way that Harry had come to associate with imminent misery.†
Chpt 19
- As though to complete the ominous picture, Hagrid was carrying what looked like half a dead cow over his shoulder.†
Chpt 21
- Mrs Weasley let out an ominous noise somewhere between a shriek and a snarl.†
Chpt 23
- As Harry and Ron handed Stan eleven Sickles each, the bus set off again, swaying ominously.†
Chpt 24
- By six o'clock that evening, however, even the glow of having successfully asked out Cho Chang could not lighten the ominous feelings that intensified with every step Harry took towards Snape's office.†
Chpt 24
- Meanwhile, several of the dragons and a large purple bat that was smoking ominously took advantage of the open door at the end of the corridor to escape towards the second floor.†
Chpt 28
- It occurred to him that he had never managed to get this far into the Forest without meeting some kind of creature; their absence struck him as rather ominous.†
Chpt 30
- The trees to which the other ends of the ropes around Grawp's wrists and ankles were attached creaked ominously.†
Chpt 30
- Hermione had been dropped, too, and Harry hurried towards her as two thick tree trunks parted ominously and the monstrous form of Grawp the giant appeared in the gap.†
Chpt 33
- Harry felt sure there ought to be a security person there, sure their absence was an ominous sign, and his feeling of foreboding increased as they passed through the golden gates to the lifts.†
Chpt 34
- Uncle Vernon swelled ominously.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)