Maybe it was because they hadn't seen what Harry had seen in the forest, or because they didn't have scars burning on their foreheads, but Ron and Hermione didn't seem as worried about the Stone as Harry. The idea of Voldemort certainly scared them, but he didn't keep visiting them in dreams, and they were so busy with their studying they didn't have much time to fret about what Snape or anyone else might be up to.
*** The statement before ‘but’ is the cause of the result after it. So I guess ‘and’ makes more causative link. Is there something wrong in my guessing?
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Neither ", and" nor ",but " necessarily refute or affirm each other's sentences that they join. Although, usually they do hint at that.
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Neither ", and" nor ",but " necessarily refute or affirm each other's sentences that they join.
Although, usually they do hint at that.
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