After the completion of the series, Rowling began to speak openly about Snape and admitted that she was particularly pleased with the way Snape's story played out throughout the course of the series, contrasting his character arc with that of Albus Dumbledore.

The common people began to term her a " siren " or " Messalina ", although they were pleased with her beauty.

Thus, Mahishi began performing a fearsome set of austerities, and pleased the creator god Brahma.

Wilson was pleased with the promotion of his friend Foch to be French Chief of Staff but not the promotion of Petain as French Commander-in-Chief ( 10 May ) – Wilson was seen as pro-Nivelle and Petain soon began to deal directly with Haig, leaving little justification for Wilson ’ s job.

that our good Papa was astonished about it himself and said he hadn't played the Song like that for a long time and was very pleased about it and felt well altogether till evening at 5 o ' clock then our good Papa began to lament that he didn't feel well ...

They were none too pleased when humans began colonizing the planet, and a smoldering guerrilla war lasted for many centuries before the Coronal Lord Stiamot rounded up and evicted the Metamorphs from Alhanroel.

One of them, called Islamey, a dance-tune, pleased me extraordinarily and with a view to the work I had in mind on Tamara I began to arrange it for the piano.

Once in Spain, however, Ferdinand was not pleased by the revolution in government that had been undertaken in his name, and by May he had abolished the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and began persecuting and arresting the liberals responsible for its creation.

In 1907, pleased with the success of the trees, Fairchild and his wife began to promote Japanese flowering cherry trees as the ideal type of tree to plant along avenues in the Washington area.

The third episode of season two began with Simpson celebrating her 20th birthday ( her birthday was on October 3, while the SNL performance took place about three weeks later, so this segment of episode three actually predated the events of the first two episodes ), before continuing with Simpson deciding to cut her hair shorter ( a decision which her mother was not pleased with ) and then filming her video for " La La " and doing a photoshoot for Entertainment Weekly, since she was chosen as one of EWs breakout artists of the year.

From his experience as a touring projectionist Porter knew what pleased crowds, and he began by making trick films and comedies for Edison.

They both were pleased and began to correspond with Cowdery and Joseph Smith.

Cakraningrat IV was definitely not pleased with this situation and he began to make alliance with Surabaya, the descendants of Untung Surapati, and hired more Balinese mercenaries.

The Fairchilds were pleased with the results of their planting and in 1907 began promoting Japanese flowering cherry trees as an ideal tree to plant around avenues in the Washington area.

The students wondered what the home would be like if they pleased no one but themselves as women and began the project.

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The human generals were pleased by this and began to withdraw human soldiers & mass produce robot ones.

The series music began with Pioneer requesting that it be romantic feeling, using piano and strings, which pleased music director Nobuyoshi Mitsumune, who had been working with the medium in his previous project.

When King Xerxes saw Esther, he was pleased and held out his scepter to her, showing that he accepted her visit.

In both cases, the exact relationship between the partners was left ambiguous, although they seemed to have carte blanche to visit each other's homes whenever they pleased and it was not uncommon for scenes to suggest Steed had spent the night at Gale's or Peel's home, or vice-versa.

Nicholas, who was unmarried, during a visit to Vezelay was so pleased with Theodore that, with the permission of his parents, he took him to Paris to educate him there.

The seven had made an agreement that they could all visit the new king whenever they pleased, except when he was with his wife.

In 1629 the king granted Loftus the unusual favour of a general license to visit England when he pleased, leaving the great seal in the hands of the commissioners last appointed, of whom his cousin, Sir Adam Loftus of Rathfarnham, co. Dublin, was one.

Parts of this novel she took with her on a visit to her uncle Sheridan le Fanu, himself a successful author, who was highly pleased with it and assisted her in having it published.

However, they said Eleanor was always welcome to come whenever she pleased and her last visit was in 1962 to attend the opening of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge connecting Campobello Island to Lubec, Maine.

Many tourists and students visit the native villages and colonies that are dedicate to cattle and some other industries ; most of them leave very pleased by the experience.

In Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, the player has to give gifts to " Heroes "; if they are pleased enough, they will visit the city, provide benefits such as reduction in building costs, and walk around.

In 1833 at age 25 and known to diplomatist Edmund Roberts as Chow-Phoi-Noi or Mom-fa-Noi, the prince secretly visited the mission house during Roberts ' negotiations for America's first treaty with Siam ; the prince was highly pleased and gratified with a night-time visit to the man-of-war Peacock, during which the men mustered to quarters for naval exercises.

He announced that he was pleased to find his monarch a " plain-looking fellow " and invited him to visit him in Rawcliffe for a good brandy.

Chief Justice Sir Richard Garth, who was president of Bethune School paid a visit to Banga Mahila Vidyalaya and was highly pleased with the arrangements and the instruction imparted to the girls.

Chacón visited Mercado, who, although he could barely see or hear by the time of his 114th birthday, was pleased with her visit.

Augustus II was so pleased with Dietrich's readiness of hand that he gave him means to study abroad, and visit in succession the chief cities of Italy and the Netherlands.

The polls in two of Taiwan's biggest newspapers after the visit reported that the public was pleased with Chen's visit, with about 50 % of the Taiwanese public considered Chen's visit having a positive effect on Taiwan's development, while 18 to 26 % of the respondents thought the effect would be negative.

" Buchanan, guessing the quality of his guest, received His Majesty with the appropriate honours, and became so great a favourite that he had leave to draw upon the carrier as often as he pleased, and was invited, as " King of Kippen " to visit his brother sovereign at Stirling.

Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.

He looked piously to heaven and said, `` Beer don't affect the tissues none '', and the ingenious hypocrisy of this defense pleased Henrietta so that she forgave him his stint of malevolence.

She let him come and go as he pleased, or as it pleased her.

Nothing is known of her until in order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony ( later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ) to choose whichever one pleased him best.

The Scottish Hebrides, particularly in the Isle of Skye, show some records of a ' Handfast " or " left-handed " marriage taking place as recently as the late 1600s where the Gaelic scholar, Martin Martin, notes " It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her ; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children ; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents.

Although his crew forced him to turn back, he was pleased with the prospect of soon finding a sea route to India and named the tip as the Cape of Good Hope.

Carson was pleased with the work the Utes did for him, but they went home early in the campaign when told they could not confiscate Navajo booty.

The captain was very pleased with his gift, and always kept it with him.

But the prophets had delivered their prophecies under the inspiration of the world-creating angels: wherefore those who had their hope in him and in Helen minded them no more, and, as being free, did what they pleased ; for men were saved according to his grace, but not according to just works.

For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Mozart was evidently quite pleased to have in Stephanie a librettist who would listen to him.

He was also pleased with the fact that his law class had voted him the man " Least Likely to Pass the Bar ".

In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.

However, upon his return from the Royal Flying Corps in 1919, the college created a new office for him – " Praelector of Natural Science Studies " – and he was given a free rein to do as he pleased.

Huenges was so pleased with his work that he offered to finance him in business.

A man, tired of his mother-in-law's henpecking, leaves home in anger and sits on a park bench, where a photographer takes a picture of him sitting next to a married woman, whose husband is not pleased.

The Portuguese King John II was not pleased with that arrangement, feeling that it gave him far too little land — it prevented him from possessing India, his near term goal ( as of 1493, Portuguese explorers had only reached the east coast of Africa ).

When someone asked her how she had obtained such a commanding influence over Augustus, she answered that it was by being scrupulously chaste herself, doing gladly whatever pleased him, not meddling with any of his affairs, and, in particular, by pretending neither to hear nor to notice the favourites of his passion.

He reunites with Angel and seems genuinely pleased to see him, but is disgusted to find that Angel has a soul ( whether or not Spike in fact knew that Angel's acquisition of a soul is why he left the group nearly a century before has never been made clear ) and is in love with the current Slayer, Buffy Summers.