All 25 Uses
tone
in
Harry Potter (#7) and the Deathly Hallows
(Edited)
- "Wormtail," said Voldemort, with no change in his quiet, thoughtful tone, and without removing his eyes from the revolving body above, "have I not spoken to you about keeping our prisoner quiet?"
Chpt 1tone = the general feeling, mood, or attitude of something
- Uncle Vernon stopped in front of Harry and spoke. "I've changed my mind," he said.
"What a surprise," said Harry.
"Don't you take that tone — " began Aunt Petunia in a shrill voice, but Vernon Dursley waved her down "It's all a lot of claptrap," said Uncle Vernon, glaring at Harry with piggy little eyes.Chpt 3 - "Stunned one of the Death Eaters, straight to the head, and when you're aiming at a moving target from a flying broom — "
"You did?" said Hermione, gazing up at Ron with her arms still around his neck.
"Always the tone of surprise," he said a little grumpily, breaking free.Chpt 5 - "Ron and Hermione seem to think that the three of you are dropping out of Hogwarts," she began in a light, casual tone.
Chpt 6
- "Oh, of course not," said Mrs. Weasley with a sudden and rather unnerving return to her casual tone.
Chpt 6
- "You look great!"
"Always the tone of surprise," said Hermione, though she smiled.Chpt 8 - His pugnacious tone indicated that they were not about to laugh at Xenophilius, despite the clear provocation.
Chpt 8
- "It could be somewhere else in the house, though," said Hermione in a rallying tone as they walked back downstairs.
Chpt 10
- However, the change in his tone seemed to have gained her approval: She smiled encouragingly.
Chpt 10
- There was something strange in Lupin's tone, it was almost cold.
Chpt 11 *
- Your tone displeases me!
Chpt 15
- And he knew by her tone that it was his mother and father this time: He moved toward her, feeling as if something heavy were pressing on his chest, the same sensation he had had right after Dumbledore had died, a grief that had actually weighed on his heart and lungs.
Chpt 16
- "You've been shouting and moaning and… things," she added in a tone that made Harry feel uneasy.
Chpt 17
- "And what exactly did I say?" asked Hermione, her tone some-where between skepticism and curiosity.
Chpt 19
- Her fingers sketched quotation marks around the name, and her tone dripped sarcasm.
Chpt 22
- Harry did not know what was worse, the things that Neville was saying or the matter-of-fact tone in which he said them.
Chpt 29
- Her tone was not encouraging.
Chpt 31
- Voldemort's tone was musing, calm, but Harry's scar had begun to throb and pulse: Pain was building in his forehead, and he could feel that controlled sense of fury building inside Voldemort.
Chpt 32
- "They live down Spinner's End by the river," she told Lily, and it was evident from her tone that she considered the address a poor recommendation.
Chpt 33
- "Wouldn't spy on you, anyway," he added spitefully, "you're a Muggle."
Though Petunia evidently did not understand the word, she could hardly mistake the tone.Chpt 33 - Dumbledore's tone was conversational; he might have been asking for a weather forecast.
Chpt 33
- Snape raised his eyebrows and his tone was sardonic as he asked, "Are you intending to let him kill you?"
Chpt 33
- His tone was light, but his blue eyes pierced Snape as they had frequently pierced Harry, as though the soul they discussed was visible to him.
Chpt 33
- "What are you talking about?" asked Harry, startled by Dumbledore's tone, by the sudden tears in his eyes.
Chpt 35
- His tone was unbearably bitter.
Chpt 35
Definitions:
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(1)
(tone as in: the tone of the essay) the general feeling, mood, or attitude of something -- especially of something said or written
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) See a comprehensive dictionary for the many other common and less common meanings of tone including:
- a quality of sound, music, or voice
- a quality of color
- a quality of muscles seen after exercise, or the act of exercising to create that quality
- signals from a telephone
The expression "tone down", means to make something less forceful.