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Most looked almost ordinary; their owners had clearly tried to make them as Muggle-like as possible, but had slipped up by adding chimneys, or bellpulls, or weather vanes.

Cassiopeia burst into fits of laughter while Penelope, eyes modestly shielded with one hand, walked across the room to give the bellpull a tug.

She came to the door in response to a sharp ring by Wesley Tiffles, who was tentative of bellpulls.

This was the entrance to the gaol, and over it a lamp was fixed, the light en- abling the wretched traveller to find a bellpull.

She dropped the bellpull and opened the boudoir door.