Draco's POV? (Was: What we find there [behind the door] )--SPOILERS!!!

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 117330


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> ***kitten:
> > secondly it would be to hard to do with the books being in Harry's 
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> Siriusly Snapey Susan:
> We have seen JKR depart from this previously, though.  The scene 
> which comes to mind for me is Frank Bryce & the Riddles.
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Carol:
True, but those chapters were at the beginning of the book, rather
like the use in SS/PS chapter 1 of Vernon Dursley's POV and an
objective (impersonal) narrator who couldn't enter *anybody's* mind in
the scene with Dumbledore, McGonagall and Hagrid. The narrator at the
beginning of GoF is similar, distant and objective and not entering
anybody's mind. There's a subtle switch to Frank's PoV where the
chapter breaks on p. 4 (Am. ed.) and we witness the conversation
between Voldemort and Wormtail through his eyes and as he dies we're
back to the objective narrator who provides the transition to Harry.
And then we're back in familiar territory. Harry has dreamed the whole
scene. How and why Harry sees from Frank's PoV is never explained, and
certainly the opening paragraphs are not part of the dream--we know
about the Riddles because the narrator tells us, but Harry doesn't.

Could a similar tactic be used for Draco, a character we already know,
in Chapter 6? Surely, as a prefect, he won't miss the opportunity to
ride on the Hogwarts Express and start bossing people around. And he
might lose the position if he neglected his duties by not being on
board. It's possible that, after his initial duties are performed,
he'll return to his cronies and Harry can overhear a conversation
about Draco's Detour to Azkaban. Or it might not be Azkaban at
all--maybe Harry will again overhear Draco in Knockturn Alley--minus
his father this time. Maybe Harry, wearing the invisibility cloak,
will follow him into Borgin and Burkes.

I don't know!! It just seems to me that JKR, having established Harry
as her PoV character for the first five chapters (or second through
fifth if she uses an objective narrator to take us back in time to
Godric's Hollow in chapter one) is unlikely to switch to Draco as the
PoV character for one chapter, or to use an impersonal narrator for a
chapter devoted to him. The only way I can think of for us to hear his
story is for Harry to witness it or overhear him talking about it.

Anyone else have any ideas how JKR could present Draco's story without
departing drastically from previously established narrative techniques?

Carol