Chapter 14 GF, weird?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 60311

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Grosskreutz"
<ivanova at i...> wrote:
> > bboy_mn:
> >
> > This is something I always thought was strange. It the Quirrel's
> > turban dream during Harry's first night at Hogwarts.
> >
> > SS/PS Pb Am PG 162-
> > Description of the dream then...  "He rolled over and fell
> > asleep again, and when he woke next day, he DIDN'T REMEMBER THE 
> > DREAM at all."
> >
> > Didn't remember the dream? er... that's odd.


> Kelly:
> 
> ... some nights where I have woken up, remembered that I had been 
> dreaming ..., gone back to sleep, ... and maybe later ... remembered
>  I had ... been dreaming, but remember nothing of the dream itself.  
> 
> Kelly Grosskreutz
> http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova


bboy_mn:

The fact that he didn't remember the dream wasn't the point in the
context of the original question. The point was that JKR told us about
a dream of Harry's that Harry doesn't know about. I though it was odd
 that she would give us this information, yet keep it hidden from Harry.

And what did the dream tell us? What purpose did it serve? In
hindsight, we can speculate that the turban in the dream gave us
insight into Quirrel being a bad guy, but many other people were in
the dream as well and they didn't turn out to be harboring Voldemort. 

On the other hand, it does give us some insight to Harry, and is seems
the typical kind of dream a person would have under a high stress
situation like that.

Back to the original question, "So, does the unknown narrator often
highlight something Harry is oblivious to?". The answer is yes.

Even the beginning of GoF has many many details about what happened at
the Riddle house and Little Hangleton, many many details that
certainly Harry could never have known from his dream about Little
Hangleton and the Riddle house. 

I think that is the advantage of a third person narrator who, none the
less, narrates from Harry's point of view. This narrator has insight
into Harry's thoughts and feelings, as well as insight into the
greater world around Harry. Sort of like the omniscience narrator.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn