All 11 Uses of
abrupt
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
- "I thought there was a Ministry of Magic?" asked Vernon Dursley abruptly.†
Chpt 3
- Ron started to laugh, but at the sight of the enormous pile of wedding presents waiting for them in Mrs. Weasley's room, stopped quite abruptly.†
Chpt 6
- Ron came to an abrupt halt, but Hermione took him by the elbow and tugged him on up the stairs.†
Chpt 7
- "Come and dance," he added abruptly to Hermione.†
Chpt 8
- And then, abruptly and shockingly amid the frozen silence, one of the dungeon doors on the left of the corridor was flung open and screams echoed out of it.†
Chpt 13
- It was as though he had been hurtling toward this point for weeks, months, maybe even years, but how he had come to an abrupt halt, run out of road.†
Chpt 14 *
- Several times they stopped talking abruptly when Harry entered the tent, and twice he came accidentally upon them, huddled a little distance away, heads together and talking fast; both times they fell silent when they realized he was approaching them and hastened to appear busy collecting wood or water.†
Chpt 15
- …air from him, pressing the Horcrux hard into his chest, a circle of ice that throbbed with life, inches from his own frantic heart, and his brain was flooding with cold, white light, all thought obliterated, his own breath drowned, distant footsteps, everything going… A metal heart was banging outside his chest, and now he was flying, flying with triumph in his heart, without need of broomstick or thestral… He was abruptly awake in the sour-smelling darkness; Nagini had released him.†
Chpt 17
- What caused this abrupt rupture?†
Chpt 18
- Snape asked abruptly.†
Chpt 33
- The crowd was afraid, and silence fell abruptly and completely as Voldemort and Harry looked at each other, and began, at the same moment, to circle each other.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(abrupt as in: an abrupt change) sudden and unexpected
or (less commonly): characterized by sudden changes or at a steep angle