Failure is a stripping away of the inessential.

“Kill the spare.-Voldemort”

“Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—…”

“Andrew returned to his contemplation of the dirty window with an ache in his he…”

“The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that t…”