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They walked past a mossy tree stump. Harry could hear running water; there must be a stream somewhere close by. There were still spots of unicorn blood here and there along the winding path.
"You all right, Hermione?" Hagrid whispered. "Don' worry, it can't've gone far if it's this badly hurt, an' then we'll be able ter –– GET BEHIND THAT TREE!"
Hagrid seized Harry and Hermione and hoisted them off the path behind a towering oak. He pulled out an arrow and fitted it into his crossbow, raising it, ready to fire. The three of them listened. Something was slithering over dead leaves nearby: it sounded like a cloak trailing along the ground. Hagrid was squinting up the dark path, but after a few seconds, the sound faded away.
"I knew it," he murmured. "There's summat in here that shouldn' be."
"A werewolf?" Harry suggested.
"That wasn' no werewolf an' it wasn' no unicorn, neither," said Hagrid grimly. "Right, follow me, but careful, now."
They walked more slowly, ears straining for the faintest sound. Suddenly, in a clearing ahead, something definitely moved. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

The bold part seems to be not a double negation but a dialect. Is this right?

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    Exactly - it is a negative doubled for emphasis. – StoneyB on hiatus Jul 31 '13 at 13:25
  • @StoneyB, So those negative doubled can be sorted into two ways depending context: (1) just a dialect, (2) emphasis, can’t they? – Listenever Jul 31 '13 at 13:33
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    Not exactly. There are a) double negations in standard formal usage, where NO + NO means YES, and b) double negations in dialect and other non-standard usage, where NO + NO means EMPHATICALLY NO. – StoneyB on hiatus Jul 31 '13 at 13:52
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    I found a previous answer by StoneyB on the same topic: http://ell.stackexchange.com/a/833/230 –  Jul 31 '13 at 13:53

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