Smell, descriptions and spells (WAS: OOP: The people in the promo pics...

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 58457

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rane_ab" 
> 
> Something else I've been wondering about is the fact that there 
are  very little references to smell in the books. <snip>
Most people don't necessarily consciously pay much 
> attention to smell, but we all use it, and it gives us many clues. 
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JKR uses smell  to give us a  clue  in Book One. Quirrell's turban 
has a funny smell, a smell which was not present when Harry 
met Quirrell in The Leaky Cauldron. Quirrell's classroom reeks 
of garlic, which may be a clue to vampire Snape. 

Pippin