They had hushed abashed as she entered and Melanie had arisen, laughing and clutching at hairpins and flying curls from where she was crouching behind the sofa.
She first felt a sort of exultation at the way in which the adventure had terminated, even though at moments between her exultations she was abashed and blushful.
Harry had thought the breakout from Azkaban might have humbled Umbridge a little, that she might have been abashed at the catastrophe that had occurred right under her beloved Fudge's nose.
Harry had thought the breakout from Azkaban might have humbled Umbridge a little, that she might have been abashed at the catastrophe that had occurred right under the nose of her beloved Fudge.
" We were having a jape with Hodor, " confessed Big Walder. " I am sorry if we offended Prince Bran. We only meant to be amusing" . He at least had the grace to look abashed.
She saw anger in his eyes at that, but it was gone as quick as it came, and suddenly he was a boy again. I know, he said, abashed. Are you... are you sending me back to Winterfell?
" Harry's already Apparated, " Ron told a slightly abashed Seamus, after Professor Flitwick had dried himself off with a wave of his wand and set Seamus lines: " I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick."