Harry's POV?

[naama_gat at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 15661

Hi,

I've been reading quite a few posts explaining things (away, mostly) 
on the basis of the Harry's POV premise ("oh, well, the stories are 
told from Harry's POV, so possibly ... the Slytherins are really nice 
fellas, the basilisk is shorter, the number of tables in at the ball 
is smaller.." etc.) 

I have a problem with this type of argument, but before going off the 
deep end, I wanted to ask, is there evidence that the stories are 
*coloured* by Harry's POV? 

Just to make clear what I mean by "colouring", I'll give an example 
of how the narrative *could* have been coloured by Harry's POV:
After Harry learned that Cho was going to the ball with Cedric, he 
"suddenly realised that Cedric was in fact a useless pretty-boy who 
didn't have enough brains to fill an eggcup." (347; Brit) If our 
perception of Cedric was coloured by Harry's perception of him, we 
would at this point have had a bad opinion of him, only finding out 
later (with Harry) that he is really an exceptionally decent guy. 
But that is not the case. The way we are told of Harry's view of 
Cedric makes it very clear that it *is* Harry's point of view (and 
that it's the outcome of jealousy, not clear judgement), so it 
doesn't colour *our* perception of Cedric as a decent guy. 

So, is there evidence for such colouring of the narrative? I couldn't 
think of anything that fits, but maybe other people here can come up 
with examples?


Thanks.

Naama