Was: Voldemort Will Win; Harry's Viewpoint Necessary?

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 79389

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "luppl" <eyalronel at h...> wrote:
> I really like this thread of thought, and it would really be great 
for the plot to have such an outstanding twist, Harry dying, but 
there's a slight problem to this. You see, from the very first moment 
of Harry's eleventh birthday up  to this point, the whole story was 
told from Harry's own, individual point of view. Note that even 
within the hardest of struggles, Harry is among the last few people 
to stay conscience to witness the event, for us to witness it. The 
little bit of what he misses after fainting is told him afterwards, 
and you don't really feel like missing a whole lot. Thus, if LV is to 
kill Harry, the whole story afterwards would have a very strange 
twist. Because up till now the whole point has been that everyone 
(Dark, that is) tries to kill Harry, but eventually fails, changing 
this would make a queer, bizzare new way of looking at things. I 
don't know if this will work.

But there is precedent:  didn't GoF start out with the whole 
background around Frank the groundskeeper at the Riddle House?  It 
wasn't just what Harry _saw_ through the strange dreaming link with 
LV; point of view changed then.  (And *I* want to know who the rich 
man is who's been keeping Riddle House "for tax purposes")

"msbeadsley"