Harry's Point of View, and the Halloween murders

[Anne R Urbanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 48023

Hi all, I did a search (with the "search" feature, of course) through about
the last 10,000 messages and couldn't find this mentioned... but it seems
to me that it's very important that JKR wrote these books in third-person
but from Harry's point of view, rather than third-person omniscient. To me,
these stories are "about Harry" not merely because he's the focal point of
the action, but because he's the only character whose thoughts we're privy
to, whose head we actually get inside. If the POV was third-person
omniscient, Harry could still be the focal point of the action, but JKR
would be able to reveal not only Harry's thoughts but the other characters'
as  well. Of course that would make their motivations a lot easier to
determine, but JKR really does want us to experience Hogwarts and the
wizarding world through Harry's eyes, so like Harry, we can't be 100% sure
of why anyone else says or does what s/he says or does. I'd carry this
further but (a) I haven't thought about it long enough to write something
really "deep" (plus I'm not really a deep thinker) and (b) I'm really tired
because I stayed up waayyy too late the last few nights reading HP fanfic
(sick, I know... and I have Y'ALL to thank for that! LOL) 
  
Also, on a more sober note, has anyone discussed the significance of
Voldemort killing James and Lily on Halloween? I'd appreciate pointers to
any previous posts about this. 
Anne U 
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