Plot hole - POV

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 18378

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> 
> To be precise, that scene is third-person 
> whateveryoucallitwhenthenarratorisn'tinANYONE'Shead (however I 
search, 
> I can't find a term for this POV).  We see things Harry can't see, 
> which distinguishes it from the vast majority of the narration 
> (third-person limited to Harry), but we don't get anyone else's POV. 
 
> We only know of Ron and Hermione what we'd know if we were sitting 
> next to them in the stands.
> 
> The first part of the first chapter of PS/SS and the first chapter 
of 
> GF are the only ones where third-person limited is used but is 
limited 
> to the POV of a character besides Harry:  Vernon and Frank, 
> respectively.  After Vernon goes to bed in PS/SS 1, the narration is 
> as at the first Quidditch match--third person, showing us things 
Harry 
> can't see yet not letting us into the thoughts of Dumbledore, 
> McGonagall, or Hagrid.
> 
> Amy Z
> League of Obsessed Nitpickers
> 
The term that you were searching for is the "omniscient narrator".

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