Plot in OotP (wand confusion)

[Katrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 118496


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <snow15145 at y...> 
wrote:> 
> 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.

Katrina:

I hope I'm not guilty of over-snippage here, but wanted to chime in 
on the perspective issue.

I once read a description of this that I thought was quite 
accurate.  While the narrator is indeed the third person, the reader 
is always subject to the "Harry Filter" which puts blinders on what 
we are able to perceive about the Potterverse.