All 17 Uses of
positive
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
- 'They were bound to clear you,' said Hermione, who had looked positively faint with anxiety when Harry had entered the kitchen and was now holding a shaking hand over her eyes, 'there was no case against you, none at all.'
Chpt 9positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- Professor McGonagall's dark eyebrows had contracted so that she looked positively hawklike, and Harry distinctly saw her exchange a significant glance with Professor Sprout as Umbridge gave another little 'hem, hem' and went on with her speech.
Chpt 11
- Ron looked positively alarmed.
Chpt 12 *
- 'No, I'm sorry, they've gone too far,' she said, standing up and looking positively furious.
Chpt 13
- Harry, whose head was still full of Cho's parting wave, did not find this subject quite as interesting as Ron, who was positively quivering with indignation, but it did bring something home to him that until now he had not really registered.
Chpt 16
- "Dobby volunteered to return Harry Potter's owl," said the elf squeakily, with a look of positive adoration on his face, "Professor Grubbly-Plank says she is all well now, sir."
Chpt 18positive = absolute (used for emphasis)
- December arrived, bringing with it more snow and a positive avalanche of homework for the fifth-years.
Chpt 21
- Harry felt himself positively swelling with pride as he watched them all.
Chpt 21positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- Though it was now well past midnight there were voices coming from inside the room, a positive babble of them.
Chpt 22positive = absolute (used for emphasis)
- Then, on the very last day of the holidays, something happened that made Harry positively dread his return to school.
Chpt 24positively = absolutely (used for emphasis)
- The fact that Hagrid was now on probation became common knowledge within the school over the next few days, but to Harry's indignation, hardly anybody appeared to be upset about it; indeed, some people, Draco Malfoy prominent among them, seemed positively gleeful.
Chpt 25
- 'So you have no idea,' said Fudge, in a voice positively sagging with sarcasm, 'why Professor Umbridge has brought you to this office?'
Chpt 27
- 'Weasley!' cried Fudge, now positively quivering with delight, 'Weasley, have you written it all down, everything he's said, his confession, have you got it?'
Chpt 27
- 'I mean, it was really great of you and everything,' said Hermione quickly, looking positively petrified at the look on Harrys face, 'everyone thought it was a wonderful thing to do —'
Chpt 32
- 'We'll have to use Umbridge's fire and see if we can contact him,' said Hermione, who looked positively terrified at the thought.
Chpt 32
- Harry would normally have tried to persuade Hagrid out of this idea at once; the prospect of a second giant taking up residence in the Forest, possibly even wilder and more brutal than Grawp, was positively alarming, but somehow Harry could not muster the energy necessary to argue the point.
Chpt 38
- Harry leaned an inch or so to the left to see where Mad-Eye was pointing and there, sure enough, were the three Dursleys, who looked positively appalled to see Harry's reception committee.
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(positive as in: I'm absolutely positive!) certain (having no doubt; or used for emphasis)