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

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carol wrote:
Anyway, the point is simply that the narrator is not the author, and
JKR, as author, has chosen to limit her narrator's omniscience.

adi writes:
   I know I might be hairsplitting about something quite off-topic 
but I would like to take your argument further. If the narrator is 
indeed different from the author, wouldn't it raise the question of 
who it is? In fact, it is not anyone we know from the canon, not any 
single character, so who is this narrator who can presume to know so 
much about these characters and then tell us exactly in the form 
he/she wants? And what can his designs be, if he can indeed block and 
allow us into minds as he/she pleases? You see, you are inventing a 
fictitious narrator, giving life to the third person vein that the 
books are told from. I don't think the narrator at least in this case 
is different from the author.

Adi, who thanks Carol for her lengthy  and meticulous answers.