Different POVs

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27149

> Cindy wrote re: POV:
> 
> >I wonder how JKR will handle this in OoP now that we have two
> >separate "camps" (Voldemort's and Dumbledore's), but Harry only has
> >access to Dumbledor's camp.  At this point in the series, could JKR
> >get away with switching to an objective omnicient POV?  Would the
> >books be as good if written in that fashion?
> 
Amy wrote:

> Very interesting question.  Perhaps she *is* going to write large 
chunks of 
> the next book from a different POV, and chapter 1 of GoF was 
intended to 
> acclimate us.  (Harry knows a bit about that scene from a dream, 
but it is 
> not told from his POV; it's from Frank Bryce's.)
> 
Hmmm.  I hadn't thought of this.  But now that you mention it, Ch. 1 
of GoF goes pretty far beyond Bryce's POV also.  There is that whole 
historical bit about the Riddles' murders and Bryce's arrest as told 
from no one's perspective.  So we move seamlessly from omnicient (I 
think), to Bryce's POV, to Harry's POV.  A neat trick.

Boy, I wish I understood the limits of an author's ability to move 
credibly back and forth among various points of view and how JKR is 
able to get away with this in GoF (and PS/SS also).  Surely someone 
must understand this.

Luke?  Amy?  Anyone?

Cindy