Harry's POV was Snape is NOT Sexy

[Neotoma73 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 4/29/03 1:13:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
"severin_szaltis" <severin_szaltis at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Me: 
> The ON is choosing not to reveal things to the reader any quicker 
> than they are revealed to Harry true, but this 'looking over Harry's 
> shoulder' approach to telling the story should not be confused with 
> First Person Narrative.  Telling a story from a particular characters 
> stand point or POV does not take away the omniscience of the 
> narrator, nor does it mean that every word written is specifically 
> only Harry's view - unless we are told otherwise it is the ON 
> *speaking*
> 
> 

This POV you're describing is *NOT* third person, omniscient narrator -- that 
was only used in the very first book, in the scenes where Harry is an infant.

The rest of the books are written in third person, *limited* narrator, 
meaning we are limited to what one character, Harry in this case, sees and 
understands.

It's not 1st person POV, but it's not omniscient either.

AnneL




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