Whose point of view ?

[jelly92784]

No: HPFGUIDX 106525

> > > Sylvia wrote:
> > > It wouldn't matter if David Copperfield had twenty times the 
> > > (considerable) number of characters Dickens employs, the story 
> > would 
> > > still be seen entirely from David's POV, just as the HP books 
are 
> > > seen entirely from Harry's.  
> 
Adi:
>>   Well, my argument is the books aren't written from Harry's point 
of 
> view as David Copperfield or any other first person narratives are. 
> They are written from the point of view of an omniscient author who 
> most of the time confines herself to decribing Harry's actions but 
> can deviate from the rote whenever the suspense or narrative 
demands 
> it.

I somewhat agree with both of your points.  The Harry Potter books 
are writen in what's called a limited omniscient point of view.  This 
means that although it's not entirely Harry's point of view(first 
person), the story follows him.  He is the only character who's head 
the narrator can get into, we never hear the thoughts of any other 
character, we never hear conversations between characters that Harry 
himself isn't hearing with the exception of the first chapter of SS.  
This gives the reader a very limited perspective, if we had access to 
the other characters' thoughts or conversations a lot of the 
questions that we debate here would be answered for us, we would 
possibly know all about dumbledore's plans for harry, and why he 
trusts snape, we might know whether or not snape truly deserves that 
trust, we might know how hermione and ron really feel about each 
other, we might realize Percy's reasoning behind his actions in book 
5.  The point is that we dont have access to this information because 
harry doesn't have access to this information and we'll have to wait 
and find out when and if he does, and in the mean time, we can have a 
whole lot of fun speculating!
hope this helps
Janelle