The phrase “Something ugly, slimy, and blind” is confusing me. Here are my questions.
What does the 'blind' part mean?
Is ‘something blind’ a special expression? (For I couldn’t find its example in dictionaries.)
I found the expression in the following scene:
It was as though Wormtail had flipped over a stone and revealed something ugly, slimy, and blind – but worse, a hundred times worse. The thing Wormtail had been carrying had the shape of a crouched human child, except that Harry had never seen anything less like a child. It was hairless and scaly-looking, a dark, raw, reddish black. Its arms and legs were thin and feeble, and its face – no child alive ever had a face like that – flat and snakelike, with gleaming red eyes. (Harry Potter 4 [US Version]: p.640) [Bold font is mine]
N.B.: The baby-like thing is a temporal seat of the spirit of a dark wizard, the main villain in the story, who is trying to regenerate with Wormtail’s help.
For you who are interested in my confusion.
At first, I thought the thing (or the baby-like being) can’t see anything, but I found it a little difficult to accept it because we can’t tell blindness objectively like ugliness and sliminess. (The author is likely to describe things objectively as she is narrating from the viewpoint of Harry, the main character.)
Then, I thought it means something incomprehensible that the writer can’t give an exact description. However, I couldn’t find a good explanation in dictionaries.