post- mortem storytelling?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 89609

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Anne" 
<anne_conda at w...> wrote:

> 
> (PS/SS)
> 
> >>"The Potters, that's right, that's what I heard yes, their son, 
> Harry"
> 
> Mr. Dursley stopped dead. Fear flooded him. He looked back at 
the  whisperers as if he wanted to say something to them, but 
thought  better of it.

<snip remainder of quote>

> 
well, obviously this can't be Harry's perspective, can it? In
fact 
> the whole book's opening isn't. Then, WHO is it leading the 
reader?
> 
  
> 
> I know a time I argued against the case of Harry's death: "Well, 
WHO  do you reckon will continue telling the story once Harry is 
dead,  since apparently HE is the narrator in some way? You 
know Rowling  promised us epilogues."
> 
>  
> 
> 
Probably the very same WHO, who inaugurated the series, to 
answer my  own question, as weird as this is.
> 
<snip>
> 
> (PS/SS)
> >>"Dunno what Harry thinks he's doing," Hagrid mumbled. He 
stared  through his binoculars. "If I didn' know better, I'd say he'd 
lost  control of his broom
but he can't have
"
<snip remainder of quote>

> 
You see my point: this whole scene simply ISN'T Harry's 
point of  view <<<

I always thought the narrator for the second quote might be 
Dumbledore. Who else would know that Snape never found out 
who set him on fire? That would argue that Dumbledore is going 
to survive the series...I imagine  him retired on that beach Harry 
thought of, with suntan lotion on his  long nose.

And you know, if Dumbledore were the narrator for the first quote, 
that  solves a great mystery. We then know how he spent the 
missing twenty-four hours. He was invisible, following Mr. 
Dursley around and using Legilimency to read his thoughts. <g>

Pippin