There may well come a time when, like me, you'll need to keep a stack handy wherever you go, but -he gave a little chortle-I don't think you're quite there yet.
" Hardly, " chortled Dirk. " Griphook here told me, he heard about it from Bill Weasley who works for the bank. One of the kids who tried to take the sword was Bill's younger sister."
" Softly, my lady, softly. No murder. He choked on his pigeon pie" . Dontos chortled. " Oh, tasty tasty pie. Silver and stones, that's all it was, silver and stone and magic" .
Lions. They were going to set lions on us. It would have been exquisitely ironic, that. Perhaps he would have had time for a short, bitter chortle before being torn apart.