GoF CH 7-9 Post DH look

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 181775

> > Magpie:
> > S/he is describing Narcissa as walking around looking like  
> > there's a bad smell under her nose, s/he's not actually 
> > thinking there is a bad smell under her nose.

> Alla:
 
> But whether narrator is describing Narcissa as walking around 
> looking as if there's a bad smell under her nose or whether 
> narrator is actually thinking that there is a bad smell under 
> her nose, those are narrator's descriptions, no?

Goddlefrood:

Allow me, as a former resident of the benighted isles, 
to interject something here. When someone is descrobed 
as looking as if she has a bad smell under her nose it 
would be immediately understood by the English that she 
was giving a somewhat condescending look. Narcissa was 
in the instance under discussion merely looking down her 
nose as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. So, we are 
to understand that Narcissa had less than a complimentary 
feeling at the time this look was noted.

No more nor less that that.

Toodle pip