Taking a character's word for it (Was: Weapons of Mass Destruction)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 97893

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

Carol again:

> Obviously, if we don't believe anybody, including our unreliable
> narrator, we won't have any canon to support our theories and 
anything
> or nothing goes. We might as well call in the deconstructionsists. 
But
> I do think we need to weigh each piece of evidence. Just because 
it's
> in this book or any other doesn't mean it's true--a lesson I hope 
our
> Hermione will learn in Book 6 or 7.

Geoff:
But, as I pointed out in message 97816, we've got to accept what 
people say until or unless it is shown to be wrong otherwise life 
just doesn't move forward.