Hi alexander -- on Apr 18 2014 at 10:07, you wrote:

ak> -----Beginning of the citation-----
ak>     "Here," he said. "We go on through here. The entrance is
ak> concealed."     Harry did not ask how Dumbledore knew. He had never
ak> seen a wizard work things out like this, simply by looking and
ak> touching; but Harry had long since learned that bangs and smoke were
ak> more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.
ak> -----The end of the citation-----

ak> It seems that "things out" is a verb and it has the similar meaning
ak> to  "looks".

Actually, the verb is "work", an infinitive with the "to" left off.


Cheers... Dallas

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