Plot in OotP (wand confusion)

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No: HPFGUIDX 118471



Snow (me) replying to Renee:
I don't think it is just a question of how heavy or awkward the
 bundle is to hold with a wand at the ready but more so the
suspicious circumstances surrounding this particular instance. Harry
and Cedric
are 6 feet from where this cloaked person stops next to a marble
headstone when, conveniently for the scene, Harry's scar attacks him
 to the point of blindness so Harry nor the readers see who it is that
 attacked Cedric for certain. The next reference, although we know
 that the cloaked figure holding the bundle had been but six feet in
 front of them, Harry now hears a high cold voice coming from `far
 away' above his head. Next Harry hears a swishing noise and a second
 voice not directly identified as the voice of Wormtail, but we have
 learned to assume it to be, saying the AK spell. Harry resumes his
 sight to find Cedric's dead body next to him and the cloaked figure
 pulling him towards `the' marble headstone that had been spoken of
 previous as to where the cloaked figure had stopped. Harry was tied
 to the marble headstone by the cloaked figure, that he now realizes
 is Pettigrew, and could not see anything that is directly in front
of him. Harry has a limited view of the whole picture throughout and 
as
 he is the narrator of the scene has therefore blindfolded the reader
 along with him. When these artful tactics occur, I personally tend
to be very suspicious.

Carol notes:
I didn't snip your second paragraph as I hate it when my own ideas are
lost through oversnipping, but I'm really only responding to the last
sentence.

Snow:
Thank you for your consideration in snipping, I, myself am guilty of 
under-snipping, at times, in an attempt to adhere to the policies of 
the site and you are right
a lot can be lost in translation when your 
message is not properly snipped, the actual subject point can be lost 
in translation, which in this case, by you, was not.  

Carol:
As I said just now in another post and have explained in great detail
elsewhere, Harry is not the narrator. This series is not a
first-person narrative but a third-person narrative with a limited
omniscient and not always reliable narrator who sees (usually) from
Harry's perspective. If the narrator were Harry, he would use "I," not
"he."

Snow:
I believe you are absolutely correct that Harry is not the `actual' 
narrator


Carol:
You are certainly right, however, that Harry's perspective, though
voiced by the third-person narrator rather than by Harry himself,
limits our knowledge and occasionally distorts it. 

Snow:
Thank You! This is the reasoning behind why I replied to Renee's 
post! It is not so much the theory itself that interested me but the 
logistics behind it. 

Carol:
I think in this instance it's because JKR doesn't want Harry to 
actually see Cedric die and she wants him to associate the death with 
Voldemort (through the pain in his scar) rather than with Wormtail. I 
still don't buy the argument for two Wormtails (or any other 
conspiracy theory), but I certainly question the reliability of the 
narrator at many points.

Snow:
I defiantly question the reliability of the narrator and am as open 
minded as I can be to all observations.