[HPforGrownups] Re: Retrospective Harry? (slips in writing style...clues?)

[Buttercup]

No: HPFGUIDX 76750


Ffi wrote:
JKR does deviate from her
> usual narrative 
> style 
> > again in PS/SS, when she shows Harry's first
> quidditch match from 
> > Hermione/Ron'Hagrid's perspective   -  something
> that's never done 
> > again.  So maybe it was just a first book
> style-thing - or maybe it 
> > is a huge clue...

Mandy wrote:
> Also what about the first chapter of GoF 'The Riddle
> House'?  It's 
> all from Frank Bryce and Voldemorts point of view
> when everything 
> else, up to that point and after it, has been only
> what we see 
> through Harry's eyes? 
> 
> I always thought that was odd and very exciting when
> I read it.  It 
> gives me hope that we may learn more deeply about
> other characters, 
> in particular the somewhat flat and two-dimensional
> Malfoys. If we 
> continue to only see Draco (and Lucius) through
> Harry's POV we will 
> never learn what is really going on inside their
> heads and as a 
> result they will always be seen in such a narrow
> perspective.  I know 
> there is much more to Draco that what we've been so
> far allowed to 
> see, but if Rowling continues in the present style
> we will only get 
> to see more of Draco if he and Harry are forced to
> deal with each 
> other.
> Mandy
> 
Buttercup:

I guess it's traditional to write children's books
from one point of view, the main character's, either
in first or third person.  But JKR must have felt it
necessary to tell other aspects of the plot in the
omniscient (all-knowing) point of view. She had to
since Harry wasn't there for scenes "Ffi" and Mandy
mentioned above. They say that sticking to one point
of view throughout the book makes a stronger story.
But I think JKR's occasional omniscient point of view
was essential for the story. 


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Buttercup

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