[HPforGrownups] Other character perspectives (was Re: Damoclesian sword for whom?)

[Jenett]

No: HPFGUIDX 30750

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 raolin1 at hotmail.com wrote:
> GF changed that by having the first chapter told from Frank Bryce's 
> POV.  Now that the seed has been sown...

I sort of see that as a special case, because immediately after that first 
chapter, we see Harry waking up, having dreamed from those events, and 
apparently from that perspective.

(Sorry, don't have the book handy at the moment, so this is recall, and I 
don't remember how explicit it is that the perspective is either Bryce's 
or a sort of floating perspective that doesn't include a clear look at 
Voldemort.) 

At the least, it sort of confuses the issue of perspective for me. I'd 
find it more jarring if that sort of thing happened without the dream 
perspective, honestly. It doesn't fit either with the past structure, or 
the school story genre stuff that is clearly part of what JKR is working 
with. 

-Jenett