Chap. 2 : Break in structure or variation? (Re: Power vs. Trust )

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 143056

Jen previous 
> So HBP broke with tradition. Harry should have learned about part
> of the UV as he did, misintepreted it, and Snape should have been
> proven right once again by the end of the book. <snip> We get to
> see Snape doing something outside Harry's POV and the action
> appears to be untrustworthy. In my mind, the through-line of the
> relationship got messed with a bit. Snape should not be seen
> actually *doing* something untrustworthy to maintain the simple
> trust storyline throughout.

> Magpie:
> Broke with tradition...or just played a variation on it?  Book VI 
> seemed to me like it was, as JKR has described it, a set up for
> Book VII.  This is the first half of the final story, and in the
> middle of the story Harry usually is mistaken as to what is going
> on. HBP resolved the Draco story, but possibly not the Snape
> story.  

Jen: That's exactly the question--did it break with the previous 
story structure or is it an unfinished variation? I reposted the 
bulk of my thought above in hopes a literary person who understands 
story structure will take a stab at explaining it, cause I can't.

When Sydney discussed the through-line of the Snape/Harry trust 
storyline leading to a reversal, this chapter stood out like a sore 
thumb to me, but I'm very open to possible explanations. 

In trying to arrange the puzzle pieces with no picture to go by, I'm 
left at the moment believing what Debbie said in post #143025, that 
the answer will be found in the off-screen interaction between Snape 
and Dumbledore. So far we don't know what happened between them 
prior to the UV, including the events of the ring, and then again 
after the UV. But we DO have the fight in the forest as a clue that 
part of the plot was shaping up in the background, and Harry and we 
aren't privy to it yet. 

Jen