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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

as easily

Harry wished he could forget what he'd seen in the mirror as easily, but he couldn't.

Is ‘as easily’ the shortened form of ‘as easily as he wished’?
  

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Probably "as easily" as he managed to forget something else previously mentioned. What was the preceding sentence?

— Khoff

  • Probably "as easily" as he managed to forget something else previously mentioned.
  • What was the preceding sentence?
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Probably "as easily" as he managed to forget something else previously mentioned. What was the preceding sentence?
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khoffWhat was the preceding sentence?
Dumbledore had convinced Harry not to go looking for the Mirror of Erised again, and for the rest of the Christmas holidays the invisibility cloak stayed folded at the bottom of his trunk. Harry wished he could forget what he'd seen in the mirror as easily, but he couldn't. He
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It seems to mean that he wished forgetting what he had seen was as easy as hiding away the invisibility cloak and not using it again. It seems as though "as easily" should refer back to a previous verb describing something Harry did that was easy to do, but the sentence is not constructed as well as it might be.
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