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Contraposition Posted 11 years ago
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I'm not really sure what this sentence mean. Can you please paraphrase it?
And what does 'into the desk' mean? (below)
  

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contraposition I'm not really sure what this sentence mean s. At that moment, Harry was thinking: "I need the bird to die while the bird and I are in Dumbledore's office and nobody else is around. That's when a fire suddenly appears in the bird.

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  • contraposition I'm not really sure what this sentence mean s.
  • At that moment, Harry was thinking: "I need the bird to die while the bird and I are in Dumbledore's office and nobody else is around.
  • That's when a fire suddenly appears in the bird.
  • " Suddenly Harry was shocked.
  • He walked backwards and his back hit the desk.
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contrapositionI'm not really sure what this sentence means.
At that moment, Harry was thinking: "I need the bird to die while the bird and I are in Dumbledore's office and nobody else is around. That's when a fire suddenly appears in the bird. The bird always dies in a fire."

Suddenly Harry was shocked. He walked backwards and his back hit the
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Harry is being sarcastic when he thinks "all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die. . . " He means it would be a really bad thing to happen -- it would make the situation much worse..
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Guessing.

All Harry needed (to get himself into big trouble) was for D's bird to die while he (Harry) was supposed to be taking care of it.
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The LAST thing he needed was ...

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