Hermione's parents

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 104526

Del wrote:
And as for those scenes that we get to see and Harry doesn't, they are
extremely rare. There's the first chapter of SS/PS, and... er... well
that's pretty much it, if I'm not mistaken. Even the first chapter of
GoF is actually seen by Harry, in a dream.<
 
Batchevra:
There is more in the first book that we get a glimpse of a different 
perspective. The first is when Harry's broom is being jinxed by
Quirrell, there is one part that shows the perspective of Ron, Hagrid
or Neville. I can't decide which one yet.
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The second one is when Snape is refereeing the Quidditich match and we
get the perspective of either Ron or Neville, Ron tells Harry later of
the fight between Draco, Crabbe and Goyle.

Carol:
I don't think there's a POV character for those scenes. The narrator
is simply relating events from an observer's (not a character's)
perspective, as he or she also does in the Privet Drive scene in
SS/PS, where we're not allowed inside the minds of any of the
characters (though we do briefly see from Vernon Dursley's POV earlier
in that chapter). There's one other tiny moment when the narrator
points out something that Harry isn't aware of--Neville is also lying
awake (it's the night after Fake!Moody's Unforgiveable Curses lesson).
These are all variations on the limited omniscient point of view, in
which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one or a few
characters, but not all of them. The dream or vision scenes,
especially the one where Harry "becomes" the Voldemort-possessed
snake, are a very interesting use of this device, or maybe a way of
getting around its built-in limitations. (I should add, though, that
as a stylistic device, particularly for a series involving elements of
mystery, it's vastly preferable to an omniscient narrator. Imagine if
she were able to report Snape's or Dumbledore's thoughts. Half the fun
is that we don't see them as they "really are" (if that were
possible), but only or mostly as Harry sees them.)

Carol