From: alexander koryagin    
      
   Hi, all!   
      
   In "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" I read:   
      
   -----Beginning of the citation-----   
       "Here," he said. "We go on through here. The entrance is concealed."   
       Harry did not ask how Dumbledore knew. He had never seen a wizard   
   work things out like this, simply by looking and touching; but Harry had   
   long since learned that bangs and smoke were more often the marks of   
   ineptitude than expertise.   
   -----The end of the citation-----   
      
   It seems that "things out" is a verb and it has the similar meaning to    
   "looks".   
      
   But where on Earth Rowling has found such a verb "to thing out"? ;)   
      
   Bye, all!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
      
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