Dumbledore "wrote" Book 1

[dicentra_spectabilis_alba]

No: HPFGUIDX 33413

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> When I first read the message subject, I thought you might mean 
> it literally. The narrative voice in PS/SS does skip ahead, and 
> back. And then I thought, what if the narrative voice *is* 
> Dumbledore?
>
> It goes outside Harry's POV to follow Hermione's attack on 
> Snape, and it tells us that "Snape would never know what 
> happened." Who'd know that, really, except Dumbledore? The 
> finality of it gives me pause, though. If my theory's right, then 
> Dumbledore will survive the series but Snapey(sob!) won't.

Now, I hadn't thought of that.  I wasn't referring to the POV of the
narrator, but rather to which agent is manipulating events from within
the story.  I need to go back and see how often the narrator quits
Harry's head and if there's something to be learned from it.
> 
> On a point that *is* related to your post...we've speculated that 
> McGonagall's The Stone Is Impossible To Steal comment is the 
> literal truth. Well, what if what everyone, Hagrid, Sirius, Hermione 
> and Voldemort himself, is telling the truth when they say No One 
> Can Harm Harry At Hogwarts While Dumbledore Is There?

>   From a wizard's point of view broken bones are a minor 
> inconvenience...in which case Harry's only ever been hurt by 
> accident, falling off his broom or being de-boned unintentionally.
> 
That makes me wonder about the time when Quirrell was trying to knock
Harry off his broom.  If Dumbledore is Harry's ultimate protector, how
is it that Snape was the one uttering the countercurse? Or if falling
off a broom is no big deal, why was Snape protecting him at all?

<Pee Wee Herman mode>I DON'T KNOW!</Pee Wee Herman mode>

Is there an acronym that expresses the idea "it's that way because the
exigencies of writing a novel demand it, verisimilitude be damned"?

--Dicentra, who figures that most of the questions asked in this forum
belong in that category