Chapter 14 GF, weird?

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No: HPFGUIDX 60292

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lennyb2002" <lennyb2002 at y...>
wrote:
> 
> So, does the unknown narrator often highlight something Harry is 
> oblivious to?

I can't remember where in GoF this occurs, but there is another
paragraph where Rowling changes her authorial voice in what struck me
as a very odd way.  The paragraph concerns time and how it speeds up
when you don't want it to; I think it occurs just before either the
first or second tasks, when Harry is realizing how little time he has
left to prepare.  What's striking is that the paragraph -- it might
even be just one sentence -- is entirely non-narrative, more of an
observation that someone might share with someone else of less
experience, lying somewhere between pedagogical and pedantic.

It's the sort of thing that Dumbledore might have said (but he wasn't
in the scene) or maybe even the sort of thing that Harry could have
mused about (but JKR does not include the phrase "Harry wondered"). 
But the voice is entirely different, and I don't recall any other
instances of this sort of character-less omniscient tone anywhere else
in the books.

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