… Harry had never met a vampire, but he had seen pictures of them in his Defence Against the Dark Arts classes, and Black, with his waxy white skin, looked just like one.
'Scary-lookin' fing, inee?' said Stan, who had been watching Harry read.
'He murdered thirteen people?' said Harry, handing the page back to
Stan, 'with one curse?'
I'm not sure what the sentence means. I searched on the web: fing could be 'thing', 'effing' and etc, but not quite sure what it is in this context. I can't find a reference for 'inee' anywhere.
— From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Best Answer
The "standard" spelling is
I'm not entirely sure, but I believe this kind of spelling is called "eye dialect":
There's likely a technical point here I'm unaware of. Anyway, at the very least, the point of this spelling is to show that he speaks very differently from the others. I imagine it possibly reflects a real-world dialect, but I wouldn't know which one.