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It seemed that Professor McGonagall had reached the point she was most anxious to discuss, the real reason she had been waiting on a cold, hard wall all day, for neither as a cat nor as a woman had she fixed Dumbledore with such a piercing stare as she did now.
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Neither as a cat nor as a woman had she fixed Dumbledore with such a piercing stare as she did now.
Does the sentence above mean this?
She hadn’t fixed Dumbledore with such a piercing stare as she did now either as a cat or as a woman.
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Neither as a cat nor as a woman had she fixed Dumbledore with such a piercing stare as she did now.
Does the sentence above mean this?
She hadn’t fixed Dumbledore with such a piercing stare as she did now either as a cat or as a woman.