JKR's narrative strategy (Was: Whose point of view ?)

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No: HPFGUIDX 107001

Hi,
carol:It's important to distinguish among different
> types of narrative strategies because they affect our interaction 
with
> and understanding of the characters
<snip>
But a limited omniscient character can sometimes use a character other
> than the protagonist (e.g. Vernon Dursley in SS/PS chapter one) or
> report events without revealing the thoughts of any characters
adi:
  I agree with what you most of the time but I have some problem with 
this 'limited' omniscient view. How come JKR'S view is limited? After 
all she is the creator, she knows everything about these characters 
that is there to know and what she doesn't know doesn't exist either, 
the world she created doesn't exist outside her, independently. So 
how come her omniscience is 'limited'? It's complete and total.
   And yes, I'm not master in English but it strikes me as odd that 
omniscience can ever be limited. It is either there or not. Like 
pregnant. Is there a limited pregnancy?

carol:
Equally interesting is the choice of characters whose minds the
> narrator does not and perhaps cannot enter: Dumbledore, Snape, the
> DADA teacher of the moment, Sirius Black, Petunia Dursley, and many
> others. This limitation keeps us guessing about these characters'
> motives and prevents us from knowing what's really going on to the
> extent that these characters know it (or think they know it, since
> even Dumbledore can be wrong

 The fact doesn't mean that the narrator hasn't entered these minds 
doesn't mean that she can't. And if she really can't, there must be 
some reason as to why she can enter only certain minds and not 
others. Remembering something, Dumbledore was described independently 
and not from anybody's POV, in the first chapter of Book !..." Nobody 
ahd seen a man like this before.."(quoting from memory). Even Snape 
too(" he hated him", from first book).
 And I've got a philosophical doubt. Is the  narrator different from 
the author?

Adi, who is somewhat petrified by carol's technical mastery