J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Filch found them
trying to force their way through a door that unluckily turned out to be the
entrance to the out-of-bounds corridor on the third floor.

Just then, the doorbell rang -- "Oh, good Lord,
they're here!" said Aunt Petunia
frantically -- and a moment later,
Dudley's best friend, Piers Polkiss, walked in with his mother.

"Well done, Ron, excellent," said Percy Weasley pompously across Harry as "Zabini, Blaise," was made a Slytherin.

They were rattling over an underground ravine ,
and Harry leaned over the side to try to see what was down at the bottom, but
Hagrid groaned and pulled him back by the scruff of his neck.

"Just a bit of toast," wheedled Hermione.

People jostled him on their way to platforms nine and tern.

They all drew
their chairs up to the table and watched with bated breath.

out-of-bounds
Petunia
Ron
scruff
wheedle
tern
bated
pompously
hurtle
jostle
filch
mystified
engulf
hunch
griffin
wizard
best friend
ravine
expel
sneer
glowing

The air became colder and colder as they
hurtled round tight corners.

People jostled him on their way to platforms nine and tern.

Filch found them
trying to force their way through a door that unluckily turned out to be the
entrance to the out-of-bounds corridor on the third floor.

Harry and Ron barely had time to exchange mystified looks before she was dashing back,
an enormous old book in her arms.

Harry pulled a
wizard cracker with Fred and it didn't just bang, it went of with a blast like a
cannon and engulfed them all in a cloud of blue smoke, while from the inside
exploded a rear admiral's hat an several live, white mice.

A few embers
were still glowing in the fireplace, turning all the armchairs into hunched
black shadows.

"Percy!"
hissed Ron, pulling Harry behind a large stone griffin .

Harry pulled a
wizard cracker with Fred and it didn't just bang, it went of with a blast like a
cannon and engulfed them all in a cloud of blue smoke, while from the inside
exploded a rear admiral's hat an several live, white mice.

Just then, the doorbell rang -- "Oh, good Lord,
they're here!" said Aunt Petunia
frantically -- and a moment later,
Dudley's best friend, Piers Polkiss, walked in with his mother.

They were rattling over an underground ravine ,
and Harry leaned over the side to try to see what was down at the bottom, but
Hagrid groaned and pulled him back by the scruff of his neck.

"Oh, well -- I
was at Hogwarts meself but I --er -- got
expelled , ter tell yeh the
truth.

"Who'd be writing to you?" sneered Uncle
Vernon, shaking the letter open with one hand an glancing at it.

A few embers
were still glowing in the fireplace, turning all the armchairs into hunched
black shadows.