Besides City of God, Augustine also wrote a book titled "Time, Evil, and Will," which collected questions others had asked him.
While discussing the seventy-seventh question in Eighty-Three Questions, "On Whether Fear Is a Sin," he mentioned the word passio.
Every disturbance was a passion (passio), and every desire was a disturbance; therefore, every desire was a passion. Whenever any passion arose in our hearts, we suffered (patimur) because of that passion. In other words, we suffered (patimur) only because it was a passion (passio). Thus, whenever any desire existed in our hearts, we suffered because of that desire; we suffered because it was a desire.
But not every passion—inasmuch as we suffered from passion—was a sin. Therefore, if someone said that if we suffered fear, it was not a sin, that would be like saying, "If it has two legs, it is not an animal." Clearly, that reasoning did not hold, because many animals had two legs. Likewise, the former claim could not stand, because many sins were things we suffered. Here, you said that the inference "if we suffered fear, it was not a sin" did not hold, yet you also said that this inference could hold, even while admitting that some sins were suffered by us. Was that not a contradiction?
Because the Muggle Underground station where the accident occurred was very close to King's Cross Station, and it happened to be the day the children took the Hogwarts Express to school, the Daily Prophet reported on the incident.
The station had been packed at the time, with forty thousand hurried passengers flowing through it. They had gathered there like a swarm of bees, then departed on five Underground lines heading in different directions. Suddenly, someone cried, "Help! The escalator's on fire!" The crowd immediately erupted into