‘There, look.’ ‘Where?’ ‘Next to the tall kid with the red hair.’ ‘Wearing the glasses?’ ‘Did you see his face?’ ‘Did you see his scar?’ Whispers followed Harry from the moment he left his dormitory next day People queuing outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring. Harry wished they wouldn’t, because he was trying to concentrate on finding his way to classes. On tiptoe/tiptoes Standing or walking on the front part of your foot, with your heels off the ground, in order to make yourself taller or to move very quietly.