Smells & descriptions

[GulPlum]

No: HPFGUIDX 58491

Rane wrote:

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>Something else I've been wondering about is the fact that there are
>very little references to smell in the books. Just off the top of my
>head, I think there might be two or three all in all

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Actually, there are a lot of olfactory references throughout the books, 
mainly in regard to rooms or houses. Here are just a few of them (no page 
references as I'm doing this from memory and don't have the time to check):

Hogwarts feasts always start with the smells of the delicious foods on offer.

Mrs Figg's house smells of boiled cabbage (PS/SS), as indeed does the 
Apothecary in Diagon Alley.

Quirrell and his classroom smell of garlic (PS/SS).

I'm sure I recall the PS/SS troll having a distinctive smell.

Filtch's office smells of fish in CoS, as do the blast-ended screwts in 
GoF  (I remember those because I've tried to determine some kind of 
connection).

Before we see the Deathday Party in CoS, I'm sure we're told how it smelled.

The Weasleys' tent at the QWC smells of cats (GoF), as a result of which 
lots of people have tried to make a connection to Mrs Figg and her cats.

I'm sure there are several more.

  --
GulPlum AKA Richard, who could do with a shower right now, talking of 
smells... ;-)