They couldn't move very quickly now; there were tree roots and stumps in their way, _______ visible in the near blackness.

Harry's eyes narrowed as he focused on the spiders. If they ________ their fixed course, there could be no doubt about where they would end up.

There was barely a face to be seen in the school that didn't look worried and __________.

"What d'you think it's doing?" said Harry. "Probably getting ready to _________," said Ron. They waited, shivering, hardly daring to move.

Maybe we'll get a ________ headmaster now. Someone who won't want the Chamber of Secrets closed.

The trouble was, there didn't seem to be a single spider left in the castle to follow. Harry looked everywhere he went, helped (rather ___________) by Ron.

So, with Fang scampering around them, ___________ tree roots and leaves, they entered the forest

"In trouble?" said the aged spider, and Harry thought he heard ___________ beneath the clicking pincers. "But why has he sent you?"

Harry and Ron had tried to visit Hermione, but visitors _____ now ______ from the hospital wing.

But Lockhart's disgusting cheeriness, his hints that he had always thought Hagrid was no good, his confidence that the whole business was now at an end, ________ Harry so much that he yearned to throw Gadding with Ghouls right in Lockhart'

Ron ________ his eyes, frowning through the moonlight. And then he understood, too.

"Sir," said Malfoy loudly. "Sir, why don't you apply for the headmaster's job?" "Now, now, Malfoy," said Snape, though he couldn't _____ a thin-lipped smile