All 3 Uses of
devise
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
- History of Magic was by common consent the most boring subject ever devised by wizardkind.†
Chpt 12 *devised = came up with (invented or created)
- Wizards much older and cleverer than you have devised our new programme of study.†
Chpt 12
- Hermione soon devised a very clever method of communicating the time and date of the next meeting to all the members in case they needed to change it at short notice, because it would look suspicious if people from different Houses were seen crossing the Great Hall to talk to each other too often.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan