Hi alexander -- on Apr 18 2014 at 10:07, you wrote:   
      
   ak> -----Beginning of the citation-----   
   ak>     "Here," he said. "We go on through here. The entrance is   
   ak> concealed."     Harry did not ask how Dumbledore knew. He had never   
   ak> seen a wizard work things out like this, simply by looking and   
   ak> touching; but Harry had long since learned that bangs and smoke were   
   ak> more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.   
   ak> -----The end of the citation-----   
      
   ak> It seems that "things out" is a verb and it has the similar meaning   
   ak> to  "looks".   
      
   Actually, the verb is "work", an infinitive with the "to" left off.   
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
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