Narrative Perspectives was: Snape and polyjuice

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No: HPFGUIDX 18314

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:


> 
> If, as JKR intimated, Harry will be exploring other magical places,
> then he will spend more time away from Hogwarts.  Snape might
> impersonate Harry at school so that no one knows he is gone 
> 
> On the other hand, Snape/HP might undertake trips away from Hogwarts
> to act as decoy for the real Harry.


Not wanting to comment on whether I like this idea or no, I think it 
will never come to that for reasons of narrative techniques (as 
opposed to reasons of plot).

Has it ever occured to you that all the scenes in all the books so far 
are told entirely from Harry´s perspective? There is no scene in which 
Harry is not present, and those where he can´t have been himself are 
told indirectly by other persons or through magical instruments (e.g. 
the pensieve).

An exception may be made for the first chapter in GoF (which I found 
rather irritating exactly for that reason when I first read it), but 
it can also be seen as Harry´s dream.

I think to remain true to her style, JKR will have to keep this 
narrative device in the future books, which will make it impossible to 
"split" Harry into two.