Chapter 1
"December had hit Hogwarts Castle like a giant, freezing hammer" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
Professor Sollivon’s office, with its unnaturally bright green flames and jars of preserved body parts, creates this kind of scary or tense feeling for the reader (that was also a vocabulary word starting with 'o'.)
What is ominous or menacing?
Name two of the three problems the four students had to fight or overcome when they crash-landed in the Forbidden Forest.
What is ...
- The Mountain Troll
-The two dark wizards
-The Logic Seal (ward)?
The shadowy figure who met Slink in the corridor and turned out to be the leader of the Shadowed Grip was this Hogwarts Professor.
What is Professor Sollivon?
The ancient stone walls perpetually wept condensation, creating slick patches of moss in the lowest levels, and an icy draft, sharp and relentless, seeped into every corridor, clinging to the heavy, damp tapestries.The icy draft was described as relentless, meaning it was _________.
What is not letting up and was continuously strong?
This is the one terrifying word Chrysanthine mouthed to Dexter across the Quidditch pitch after Slink and the two cloaked figures were spotted.
What is Run?
This vocabulary word means unable to be affected, penetrated, or damaged.
What is Impervious?
This vocabulary word means in a way that causes fear, worry, or discomfort.
Whast is unnervingly?
The phrase describing the icy draft as "clinging to the heavy, damp tapestries" is an example of this figurative language.
What is personification?
The Quidditch match was important to Slink's plot because the noise and excitement served as a perfect distraction for Slink to do this.
What is escape to the Forbidden Forest?
The Logic Seal was a magical barrier that demanded the students input specific emotions to open it. This was the emotion Dexter focused on from his childhood, AND the event.
What is joy or exhilaration, triumph, strong positive thoughts, and flying on a broom for his father?
The dark magic ritual was stopped when the powerful curse Sollivon cast was absorbed and then violently pushed back by this upgraded spell, which hit him.
What is Suprema Aegis or runic shield/Protego Totalum?
This is the profound, undisclosed reason Dexter Dogsbane is unable to ask Chrysanthine to Hogsmeade, causing him to instantly give up after her piercing scrutiny.
What is his fear/terror of rejection?
He greatly respected Zali's pragmatic leadership and tactical mind, knowing that if anyone could navigate this brutal weather for them to obtain victory, it was her. Pragmatic in this sentence, means ________.
Dealing with things sensibly and realistically; practical rather than theoretical.
This vocabulary word means having or showing a desire to do evil; malicious and threatening.
What is Malevolent?
The ancient stone altar on the mountain peak, which channeled the mountain's power and was used for the ritual, is known as a nexus, or a place where this converges.
What is ley lines?
He took a deep, shuddering breath, smelling the strong scent of pine needles from the festive wreaths dangling incongruously on the towering bookshelves.
What is n a way that is strange or inappropriate because it doesn't fit the surroundings or context; out of place.
This is the specific magical maneuver Dexter used to avoid being sandwiched by two Gryffindor Chasers, a move so daring his captain Zali screamed at him.
What is a sloth grip roll?
When Dexter and Chrysanthine left Odis and Cadence to fight the dark wizards alone, Dexter struggled with the feeling of this strong emotion.
What is betrayal or guilt for abandoning his friends?
Harry Potter teaches Dex the most powerful magic comes not from a wand, but from this.
What is the refusal to give up on the people you love?