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The book uses figurative language derived from warfare to create tension and illustrate conflict. Ginny Weasley’s warm, red embarrassed face is imagined as a sunset: “she dived under the table to retrieve the bowl and emerged with her face glowing like the setting sun.” And Harry sees Dumbledore’s glowing glasses as moons: "Harry’s eyes wandered past him to where Professor Dumbledore, the headmaster, sat watching the Sorting from the staff table, his long silver beard and half-moon glasses shining brightly in the candlelight" (p. For instance, Dobby the house-elf’s eyes are frequently referred to as orbs, which are spherical celestial bodies: “Harry Potter is humble and modest,” said Dobby reverently, his orb-like eyes aglow” (p. The Chamber of Secrets makes use of celestial metaphors and similes to describe light.
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And when Ron gets embarrassed he becomes "as brightly pink as Lockhart’s valentine flowers" (P. Ginny Weasley, on the verge of telling Harry and Ron about the Chamber of Secrets "was rocking backward and forward slightly in her chair, exactly like Dobby did when he was teetering on the edge of revealing forbidden information" (p. When Percy fights with his brother, “he strode off, the back of his neck as red as Ron’s ears” (p. Weasley getting into trouble for bewitching the car, he feels "as though he’d just been walloped in the stomach by one of the mad tree’s larger branches" (p. The book uses several metaphors that are self-referential, referring to other images in the book to create a unified coherent world. And Professor Sprout's understatement is described, appropriately, with a botanical metaphor: "'As our Mandrakes are only seedlings, their cries won’t kill yet,' she said calmly as though she’d just done nothing more exciting than water a begonia" (p. When Malfoy is spattered with swelling solution, his head droops "with the weight of a nose like a small melon” (p.
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For example, Rowling uses plant similes to describe several scenes: Garden gnomes are as "small and leathery looking, with a large, knobby, bald head exactly like a potato" (p. Moments of magic in the book are often described with images from everyday life, to make them possible to visualize. Finally, this simile in Ginny Weasley’s valentine for Harry Potter refers to color, but adds a whimsical witchy twist: "His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad” (p. 163) and with “Snape, gliding over like a large and malevolent bat" (p. Sometimes, Rowling actually states which qualities she is trying to emphasize through the adjectives she uses right before comparing a person to an animal, for example, with "Madam Pince, the librarian, was a thin, irritable woman who looked like an underfed vulture" (p. He took out his wand, tapped the board, and the arrows began to wiggle over the diagram like caterpillars” (p. The magical animation of Wood’s quidditch diagram is illustrated by this simile: “Wood was holding up a large diagram of a quidditch field, on which were drawn many lines, arrows, and crosses in different colored inks. Professor Binns’ slow, elderly and possibly wise nature is emphasized when he "paused again, pursing his lips, looking like a wrinkled old tortoise” (p. When Snape and McGonagall seek to punish them, Snape shoots "a look of pure venom at Harry and Ron," true to his affiliation with the snake-themed Slytherin House, while McGonagall is "eyeing them like a wrathful eagle" (p. But then as their fortunes change and they run into the Whomping Willow, it hits them with "the force of a charging bull" (p. The tininess of the Muggle world seen from their great height in the flying car is imagined as "a great city alive with cars like multicolored ants" (p. In a moment of foreshadowing of what is to come with the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts, Harry and Ron see “The Hogwarts Express streaking along below them like a scarlet snake” (p. Weaseley becomes powerful in her anger, she "swelled like a bullfrog" (p. Fred and George's ability to climb through Harry's window stealthily to rescue him is "catlike" (P. When Harry meets Dobby for the first time, the elf's large ears take on a slightly dark, Gothic quality with the descriptor "bat-like" (p. The Dursleys' disgust and suspicion towards Harry lead them to treat him as if he's "a dog that had rolled in something smelly" (p. Uncle Vernon's large size and pugnaciousness are made clear when he is described as a rhinoceros (p. Rowling uses animal metaphors and similes throughout the book to make the qualities of her characters vivid.
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