I was recently helping some Spanish-speaking students with something, in which they had to translate "take". The translation I've learned in classes is "tomar", but that was interpreted as "to drink", so "agarrar" was used as a synonym to ease understanding. I learned it was not technically corre...

I'm a bit fuzzy on how the "personal a" works in Spanish, for example in this passage from Harry Potter y la cámera secreta: Nunca se había sentido tan solo. Antes que ninguna otra cosa de Hogwarts, antes incluso que jugar al quidditch, lo que de verdad echaba de menos era a sus mejores amigo...