"That's something I've been meaning to talk to you about," he said, in his deep, serious voice.

"I do not view it lightly," he said, his voice steady and serious.

But when the earl was still talking, in the same low, serious voice, ten minutes later, it began to creep back.

"There's no point hiding it from you any longer, Potter," she said in a very serious voice.

"It is a momentous time," she said in a low and serious voice.

"Their time was different in a thousand ways," she said, her young voice suddenly serious.

"You do that to me," he said, his voice low and serious.

"I've been practicing when I can, on the quiet," she said, her voice a bit more serious.

He spoke in a low serious voice that chilled her.

"I was thinking of you," she said, in a soft and serious voice.