Neither as a cat nor as a woman had she fixed Dumbledore with such a piercing stare as she did now.

[diamondcutter]

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.

 

[Tarheel]

What is she now? A cat?

Yes.

 

[diamondcutter]

She is a woman now.

 

[Tarheel]

Weird stuff.