What are examples of similes in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?

Answer 1

Some examples of smilies in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone are:

• "You could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all that hair" pg.39
• "...a pile of red rubies as big as glowing coals." pg 57
• "Harry's legs were like lead again..." pg.96
• "It was strange to touch, like water woven into material."

Two similes are:

"It was sitting as still as a statue" - Chapter 1 talking about the cat sitting on the Dursley's garden wall.

"books as large as paving stones" - Chapter 5 describing books in Flourish and Blotts.

Answer 2

"whiter than a skull..."-the very last page (558 in my copy) of Flesh, Blood and Bone.

Answer 3

• It was coming - as the Prime Minister had known at the first cough - from the froglike little man wearing a long silver wig who was depicted in a small, dirty oil painting in the far corner of the room.
• The Prime Minister's first, foolish thought was the Rufus Scrimgeour looked rather like an old lion.
• At last, Narcissa hurried up the street named Spinner's End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger.
• Bellatrix's mouth twisted as though she had taken an unpleasant dose of medicine.
• Bellatrix's astounded face glowed red in the blaze of a third tongue of flame, which shot from the wand, twisted with the others, and bound itself thickly around their clasped hands, like a rope, like a fiery snake.

You are as annoying as voldemort

Answer 4

In Ginny's valentine to Harry, she says

"Eyes as green as a fresh pickled toad,"

and

"Hair as dark as a blackboard."

Answer 5

All the sencentes with "She was like ... " or "...as..." are similes. There are a lot of similes, especially in Harry Potter!

Answer 6

The sword went through the large snake like someone cutting a banana

Answer 7

The sword went through the large snake like cutting a banana

and

the chambers floor was as cold as ice

and

Ron was scared of Spiders like harry is of lord voldemort