[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's POV?

[Rina Stewart]

No: HPFGUIDX 15669

Kelley wrote:

<<As to Harry's POV, the only times this 
argument seems to have any real validity to me are in regards to 
matters of the private lives of the professors, whether McGonagall 
has a mentoring relationship to Hermione, what level of friendship 
Hermione and Ginny have, etc.  Basically, matters which he so far has 
had no real exposure to. >>

As far as the books go, it's third person limited. That means that we're not exactly in Harry's mind ("I went into the hut"), but we're not in anyone else's, either. We know Harry's thoughts, but not Ron's or Hemione's. For the most part, we only know what he knows. Remember at the end of PoA, when Harry thinks he saw his father doing the patronus? We thought so, too, until Harry learned that he had seen himself, which is when we learned it. For me, it's a logical step to assume that if we only know what he does, we're seeing it from his perspective, which is naturally colored by his own thoughts. With Cedric, we already knew what Cedric was like, from Harry's experiences. That coupled with the events right before with Cho is why we recognize that the later negative impressions are colored by jealousy rather than fact. For all we know, we're going to learn that a lot of his impressions have been colored by feelings, and be surprised by someone turning out to be a good guy or a bad guy.

Rina
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