Then Alani saw a shining, high-heeled black shoe emerging from the inside of the Carriage, a shoe the size of a child's sled, followed, almost immediately, by the largest woman she had ever seen in her life. The size of the carriage, and of the horses, was immediately explained. A few people gasped. This woman (now at the foot of the steps, and looking around at the waiting, wide-eyed crowd) seemed unnaturally large, she was taller than Hagrid. As she stepped into the light flooding from the Entrance Hall, she was revealed to have a handsome, olive-skinned face, large, black, liquid-looking eyes and a rather beaky nose. Her hair was drawn back in a shining knob at the base of her neck. She was dressed from head to foot in black satin, and many magnificent opals gleamed at her throat and on her thick fingers.