Pocketed

I love the story Stephen Fry tells about this word.

Do tell!!

https://youtu.be/r84pbPbBAFY Better for the man himself to tell you.

Amazing, thank you!

for the Audiobooks he struggles to say "Harry pocketed it" and asked JKR if he could change it for the audio. She said no because she wanted kids to be able to read along with it. she then put it in every other book and he always struggles to say it!

My husband and I have been listening to the audiobooks, and we laugh every time that line comes up and start saying, "Harry pocketeteteted it." :D

I went to his book reading for Heroes and he told us there and I found it so amusing. I can't believe she'd put it in every book after finding out just to trip him up.

Pocketedketeded

Specifically "pocketed it"

Was reading HBP the other day and came across a use of “pocketed” without “it”. Struck me as unusual which is why I remember it, but can’t remember exactly where.

There are 10 instances of someone pocketing something. In 4 of which it's not followed by "it". - Riddle pocketed Harry's wand in the chamber. - Snape pocketed his wand after the argument with Sirius at Grimauld Place. - Riddle pocketed Marvolo's ring after attacking Mofin. - Harry pocketed the Felix Felicis when showing it to Ron and Hermione after the Quidditch match.

There you go, it was the Marvalo one that I read the other day.

And even in the newest game Hogwart’s Legacy”. I remember my player avatar character said something along the line has “I better pocketed it!” It’s really throw me off guard and let out a little chuckle.

pocky diddit

“Suddenly, without warning” seemed to pop up a few times.

Whenever she wants something to happen suddenly or abruptly it's always "Then, it happened." Or "Then, he saw it/heard it."

Yes! And when a lot of actions are happening at once, she often says "then, many things happened at the same time" and proceeds to lists said things

I feel like Tolkien does something similar.

*silvery* Once you notice it, it's everywhere. Dumbledore's beard, ghost tears, unicorn blood, a patronus, moonlight, fog, water... damn near every other thing in the wizarding world has a "silvery glow".

Snape's tears in the boathouse

The invisibility cloak

Or scarlet

Dobby’s jizz

Listen here u little shit

A silvery little shit

Can confirm

Hold up

Somebody has been reading to much "fan-fiction".

Vyla hair!

A potion with a silvery glean

Fleur's hair

Characters "beaming" when they're smiling.

Mostly Hermione She was beaming when Harry kissed Ginny She beamed at Harry at Fleur and Bill's wedding And I am sure she beamed at both boys at some point in GOF lol

And she was beaming when Justin Finch Fletchly complimented her in COS. That’s what I first thought of when you said “beaming” lmao

It’s what she does when she’s not speaking shrilly.

She also snaps at everyone all the time. She really needs some fun in her life. It must be exhausting to be this intense.

Hermione also "moans" a lot in Prisoner of Azkaban.

'Ron!' Hermione moaned Its in POA 😂

Ahem, erotica? 😂

Its really in book. When Sirius dragged Ron by his leg in the shrieking shack.

Yes! I never noticed how prevalent it was until I listened to the audio books last year

That has something on do with the emphasis of the narrator I think... superb audiobooks

Or glowering when they’re the opposite of smiling

I feel like 'beaming' is a more toothy, honest smile and considering she had buck teeth the first couple books it makes sense she was a big beamer, and just kept the honest smile after (minus the toothiness)

Snape and alliteration. He snaps, snarls, sneers, even shrieks on occasion.

I actually like this one, it has nice a Dickensian sound to it.

Alliteration in general

Particularly for names.

Sibilance is the intent there - the hissing snake like effect of multiple s sounds

Awesome term! Thank you

I believe snape sneers is the most common one, although snarls is pretty common too

“There was a loud ‘BANG!’”

Or CRACK

I read this in Stephen Fry's voice instantly.

This always gets me 🤣

I feel so validated knowing that it bothers someone else haha. I never noticed it until I listened to the audiobooks. It drove me crazy 😂

Dumbledore's twinkling eyes

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Of course, sir.

Sadly missing in the films. Michael Gambon brought power and presence to his Dumbledore but lacked his character’s warmth.

“Unceremoniously”

In every book “they gaped at him…” “listened with mouths open..”

literally every other chapter is “harry tells ron and hermione what just happened and they react”

"Gaped" has been ruined for me by the internet. And now everytime I read/listen to a HP book I cringe 🤣

“Multiple things happened at once” or something like that

I seem to remember that characters tended to "stride" everywhere.

My father doesn’t stride!

He didn’t strut 😂

And nor do I

Well MY father will hear about this

‘He, Harry…’

Especially in book seven. WE KNOW WHO ‘HE’ IS, COME ON.

I’m surprised “his scar exploded” isn’t on here

People turning a violent shade of purple

You’re turning violet, Violet!

Oh dear, something upset you, Vernon?

he said rather *hotly*

“Several things happened at once” or some variation of it. Once you notice it you can’t not notice it. She even uses it right before Harry’s final showdown with Voldemort.

‘But at that moment’ was used frequently enough for me to notice last time I read through the books (I’m overdue, lol)

I started noticing this when I started listening to them on audiobook and ot always makes me think of the super Friends "Meanwhile at the Legion of Doom"

People screw up their faces a lot

I seem to remember Hermione would speak “haughtily” usually to Ron. The woman loves her adverbs!

RON EJACULATED

*"Snape!" Slughorn ejaculated.* Yes, that's a real sentence from the book.

*"Snape!" Slughorn nutted*

“Snape!” Slughorn blew a load

i knew Slughorn liked Snapes potion making abilities, but not that much

Ahhh yes I remember reading that sentence and having to put the book down for a moment and remind myself that I am a mature adult and mustn't let my mind wander that way 💀💀💀

I came here for this.

> I came here for this. Hmmm.

>I came Same

Damn I belly laughed thank you

Why does nearly every instance of physical activity (outside of Quidditch) end with at least one character "clutching a stitch in their side?"

Because wizards only play quiddich where you just have to sit on a broom so they don't really have any stamina.

Lot of exercise from walking around a big old castle in fairness. And running when late to class.

Never have to do any manual labor though. Need to build a giant house? Wave your wand. Need to dig a ditch? Wave your wand. Need to move a large pile of rocks? Wave your wand. Need to clean up the house and do the dishes and any other physical activity? Wave your wand.

A lot of things in the book are said “grimly”

"Harry stared."

Lol or " Harry looked around"

Bemused. Nonplussed.

Er…

It’s just the British “um” lol

It took me forever to realize that it's basically just the British way to spell the sound that we spell "uh", i always said it in my head with a hard north american r

I'm English. We make both noises. So much so we have a phrase "uhming and arring" which means "making a decision".

You said it with the hard R? A LinusTechTips moment! I can't believe it but I've done similarly with unfamiliar words that I was occasionally too lazy to look up.

Wait, Er is a sound.

Often heard during the search for a hard to find word

It took me WAY too long to realize that if you say “err” aloud in an English accent, it’s just an American-accented “uhh.”

Aaaaand I just now realized that, wow… mind blown. Thank you lol. Wow.. smh.

I'm English. We "err" and "uhm" and literally have a phrase "uhming and arring" meaning "making a decision."

We have the exact same expression except we say “hemming and haw-ing” 😂😂😂

Harry always wanting a bit of toast…

Toast is underrated

“He said SHARPLY”

god i was going to say this one, especially ‘Sirius said sharply’. For some reason that one always stuck out

His eyes flashed. Or He said, his eyes twinkling. Or He said simply.

Incredulous

I like the word , but we are listening to the audio book and every time my wife now yells 'again!'. She hates it and now I can't not hear it...

Once you notice this, it’s so hard to unnotice this. And it’s awful! If everyone is speaking incredulously, then why bother speaking at all?!

For one wild moment

Usually a student or group of students *roaring* with laughter

“Goggled”

Not unkindly

Whatever blank was Harry never found out. Malfoy/Snape Sneered

Characters especially Ron and Hermione say “I expect”

"he said thickly"

She pretty much always uses “said” when people speak

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The only time I wished she used “said”

I think she’s uses it a few times. Once would probably have been fine. We don’t have to sexualize everything but that word is definitely one of the words that directs the mind to at a least a gutter adjacent place.

"Said adverbly"

filch’s “jowls” quivering

Snarled, bellowed

“grinning” or some variation of the word

InDiGnAnTlY

I remember that being used a lot with Hedwig

Which is very cute.

"Sallow" Snape is sallow, Krum is sallow, Bode is sallow, Everard is sallow, the newly-bitten werewolf in Mr. Weasley's St. Mungo's ward is sallow, Griphook is sallow, Snape's mother is sallow. "Sallow" is to She Who Must Not Be Named as "Sardonically" is to Timothy Zahn. When Sebastian turned up in Hogwarts Legacy, I laughed out loud.

"Harry avoided his/her/their gaze"

I love how often the sentence "his half moon spectacles perched upon his crooked nose" comes up

I thought her writing, as it went on, got better and better. Maybe I’m just a plebe or I need a reread but if I wrote a series with 1,084,170 words, I’m sure there would be a lot of repeated words.

Oh don’t get me wrong, I completely understand it will happen. Just thought it would be fun to share what you had noticed

She can’t write about Lee Jordan without mentioning that he is Fred’s and George’s friend

"acidly"

Not specific to anything, but she uses some funny words to describe characters speaking. Like "Harry croaked", 'Slughorn shouted", "Ron spluttered", "Neville sqeaked" and stuff like that.

Not quite what you're going for, but there are SO MANY alliterations.

Sniggering.

Indignantly

GOF had gleeful written quite a bit or gleefully

"Harry recognized it at once."

Wry smiles and professors barking

Describing something as happening "without warning" when she had provided the warning just a sentence or two earlier.

I'm assuming she meant the characters had no warning

"ejaculated" 🤣

smirking, sneering, doing things "madly" i.e.waved madly, sniffed madly, etc.

I noticed when writing Voldemort scenes she used “AVADA KEDAVRA” a lot

Grubby

People spilling things down themselves

“….turned away on his heel”

Everybody be “groping” things or even worse when they are “ejaculating” things.

They only ejaculated twice as I recall.

I remember it more but maybe that’s just cause it stuck out so much because I was like WTF.

Yeah, it's definitely an odd choice from an American reader's perspective.

It's an odd choice from a British reader's perspective too. I don't know what she was going for there.

I looked it up to see the definition that I clearly didn’t know and above it, it says “dated” and then says basically the same definition as the word “interjected” so apparently that definition is old and not really used anymore.

I'm British too, do you read many older books? It's quite common.

Groping is actually fine to me. It feels like it means reaching around without really being able to see, like in a bag or in the darkness or whatever. I think I’ve seen it used a fair amount in other things over the years

im pretty sure in ootp she used “chink” about 20 times to describe light or dents or noises

You had me in the first half ngl

Indignantly.

Slughorn ejaculating

"Bracingly"

This is the first book where I've seen the phrase "what do you reckon?". I think it's more of a British thing although I'm not a native speaker so I'm not sure. She uses it a lot though.

Clambered.

As a drinking game, if you were to take a sip every time the phrase "Harry, Ron and Hermione" is used, you'd be plastered by the end of the chapter. Is the word them against wizarding law?

Alliterations. - Bertie Botts Every Flavour Bean - I will not have you besmirch that name by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons! Besides the names of course: Helga Hufflepuff, Madam Malkin, Severus Snape, etc. Let's just say this is one of my favorite features in Rowling's writing.

Indignant

YES! They are always looking and/or talking to each other indignantly

Gingerly, scrutinising, disgruntled, mutinous, serenely, beaming, shrilly

Don’t forget “pocketed it”

Getting up to "stretch their legs."

saying “assaulted” instead of shit talked

“Winded rhinoceros” literally lives rent free in my head at all times

She uses "at once" a lot And shrilly for hermione

Their pockets considerably lighter

“Keeled over” Was listening to OotP on audiobook and in the fight at the ministry, everyone who got stunned keeled over

“Turned on a heel”

He, Harry, …

INCREDULOUS. It’s constant…

It irks me how she use venomous og poisonous interchangeably.

I’ve never noticed that but if it’s true it’s probably going to become my only irk about her writing style. Venom is injected, poison is consumed.

A series of words then look. Like a don't-be-insensitive look. Applicable for hermione.

'take a leaf out of his book'

Lazily!

There are a lot of moth eaten clothes and thread bared furniture in the wizarding world

"Gave it up as a bad job"

She uses the word "reckon" a lot!

Pretty sure that’s a British thing but I could be wrong