1. Improve this paragraph by combining these short, choppy sentences into longer, more complex text. Imagine the type of paragraph you would find in a Harry Potter novel. You may add a few transition words. They had stepped directly into a tiny sitting room. It had the feel of a dark padded cell. The walls were completely covered in books. Most of them were bound in old black or brown leather. It contained a threadbare sofa. It had an old armchair and a rickety table. A candle-filled lamp hung from the ceiling. It cast a pool of dim light. The place had an air of neglect. It did not seem inhabited.

2. They had stepped directly into a tiny sitting room, which had the feeling of a dark padded cell. The walls were completely covered in books, most of them bound in old black or brown leather; a threadbare sofa, an old armchair and a rickety table stood grouped together in a pool of dim light cast by a candle-filled lamp hung from the ceiling. The place had an air of neglect, as though it were not usually inhabited. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K Rowling