The travellers several times saw bands of ferocious Indians, who, when they perceived the elephant striding across–country, made angry and threatening motions.
But now a short, angry wizard stood before him, refusing, point-blank, to accept the prospect of disruption in his comfortable and ordered world - to believe that Voldemort could have risen.
Last I saw, she was headed to the kitchen 'cause she heard they had coke, but I'm pretty sure they meant the drink, so she'll probably be back soon, and cranky.
Vernon Dursley hunched his shoulders angrily, and Harry guessed that his uncle was attempting to ward off recollections of the unannounced visit, a few days into Harry's summer holidays, of two fully grown wizards.
The face was ivory pale, but there was a likeness to the brother in London in the very straight, angry black brows and the short cliff of wiry hair cut en brosse, and in the ruthless jut of the jaw.