Chapter 14 GF, weird?

[lennyb2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 60389

--- Kathryn wrote:


> Page 317 US PB "It is a strange thing, but when you
> are dreading something, and would give anything to
> slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding
> up."
> 
> One of my favorite quotes:) And you're right, it's in
> chapter 19, The Hungarian Horntail, so it's right
> before he knows about the dragons...when he's still in
> the dark about what he'll be facing.
> 

(Quick summary--this passage has been quoted regarding strange 
changes in narrative point of view.) Regarding this quote, Kathryn, 
in Chapter 37 of GF, there is this:

"The rest of the journey passed pleasantly enough; Harry wished it 
could have gone on all summer, in fact, and that he would never 
arrive at King's Cross . . . but as he had learned the hard way that 
year, time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead, 
and all too soon, the Hogwarts Express was pulling in at platform 
nine and three-quarters."


So, it seems the narrator is giving a very private look at Harry in 
Chapter 19 and then 37. The narrator might only seem out of voice in 
19- as if giving an observation of his/her own. By 37, it is 
solidified as a part of Harry's thoughts. The narrative voice, broken 
or not, is solved in the end. 


bboy_mn wrote:

"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... " and Harry woke, sweating and
shaking." [new paragraph - my emphasis added] "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."


This is also interesting. We get a description of a dream that Harry 
is basically oblivious to. The narrator gives it to us, but why? In 
the end, we see this dream has relevance and is foreshadowing. So, 
there is a loop in the narration-and like the time quote- we 
eventually see the truth (about Quirrel, his turban, and Harry's 
dream) in the end. 


Which brings me back to the last paragraph in GF chapter 14. In these 
2 other places that have been presented as broken narration, there is 
a relevance later in the respective book. Harry has learned a lesson, 
and Quirrel is not what he seems. Sleepless Neville, however, does 
not reappear in GF. It seems the narrator is mentioning something 
very important-but not telling us why. 



Et Tu Neville?

lennyb


p.s. thanks you guys for finding those other passages!