Unreliable narrator (Was: Snape's stalling)

[nkafkafi]

No: HPFGUIDX 117003


> Pippin:
> LOL! I had the opposite impression...that  anti-conspiracy 
> theorists are always saying JKR didn't *mean* to make  Lupin  
> look bad <g>.  

Neri:
Yes, the anti-conspiracy theorists are consistent. They claim that
certain people are just obviously good, and Lupin is one of them. They
don't employ "subversive reading" in the sense that the conspiracy
theorists use it. If the conspiracy theorists are consistent, they
should distrust anybody, including Snape. But for some reason he turns
out to be the hero in any conspiracy theory I can remember.

> Pippin:
> Personally, I believe I agreed with you on the time 
> line but there are still quite  a few reasons for why Snape couldn't 
> have made contact with the order. Primarily,   I am sure he 
> believed Harry  and his friends were safe enough in the 
> forest--safer than they would be at the school, since Umbridge 
> would have had them all expelled for breaking into her office and 
> attacking the I-squad.
> 

Neri:
Yes, your trust in Snape was quite admirable ;-) or at least it would
have been admirable for an anti-conspiracy theorist.

> Pippin: 
> Actually, unless JKR has gone and revised the text as she 
> sometimes does,  I can prove that the Harry POV 3rd person 
> limited narrator is unreliable.  <snip example>

Neri:
A nice example, although IMO it is an example of a simple flint rather
than an unreliable narrator. But I never doubted either flints nor the
unreliable narrator. I just wondered how come they are always employed
to prove that Snape is a great guy.

Neri