Chapter 14 GF, weird?

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 60313

lennyb2002 asks;

>>So, does the unknown narrator often highlight something Harry is oblivious 
to? Is the narrator sympathizing for Neville, or perhaps suggesting that Harry 
is missing an important clue? <<

Harry is certainly missing an important clue. It took falling into 
Dumbledore's Pensieve to get him to realize that there is something going on with 
Neville.

And no. The narriator has *not* often highlighted things that Harry is 
oblivious to. But "she" has done so more than once in GoF and I think that this is a 
clue to *us* that she intends to do so more often in the future. We've seen 
the action only from Harry's point of view to this point, but the narrator is 
begining to draw back from that sort of tight focus on Harry -- just a bit, 
we're nowhere near the "omnicient narrator" yet -- as show us a little of the 
background action. 

I suspect that she is going to have to do this as the series progresses and 
the situation in the wizarding world worsens. She is going to have to have a 
way of showing the reader information that Harry has no way of learning until 
much later. In GoF she broadedned her focus to also give us a view of Voldemort 
and Wormtail, through the scar connection. But as the scope of the opposition 
between Voldemort and the rest of the ww grows we are almost certainly going 
to reach a point that we will have to see the action from the PoV of someone 
other than Harry or Voldemort. Particularly by Book 7 which I suspect is going 
to need to be choreographed from the PoVs of several separate groups leading up 
to the final confrontation. 

She is easing us into this wider view very gently, at the earliest available 
point in time.

-JOdel