Harry's bias again, answering several posts

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 140997

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at h...> 
wrote:

Alla:
> > Again, going back to the first scene, I find Lebeto's example to 
be 
> > perfect - Snape punishes Harry for the fact that he did not help 
> > Neville. Erm... how exactly would it look differently if anybody 
> else 
> > would tell us "objective description " of this action?
> > 
> > I mean, sure Draco and Co woul add different adverbs or 
objectives 
> to 
> > it - " how great that Snape did punish that Potter or something 
> like 
> > that", but suppose we are asking "neutral" narrator to tell us 
> about 
> > this event. Do you think such narrator would be able to put 
> positive 
> > spin on Snape's actions here?
> 
> Ceridwen:
> I don't know if an objective narrator could.  I don't have anything 
> else other than Harry's POV to go on.  Given what we have, no, I 
> doubt it.  But, going back to the broom hexing, I can't allow 
myself 
> to be quite so sure about it.  It *looks* like a duck, it *quacks* 
> like a duck, but is it a duck?

Geoff:
I agree that we are seeing things from Harry's point of view but this 
incident is not written in reported speech after it happened but as 
a "real time" event so, if Snape's words are being accurately 
recorded, then I believe there is no room for a positive spin.