The 'Seeming' Reality

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 155509

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wynnleaf" <fairwynn at ...> wrote:
>
> I don't post often, but read a lot, and thought you all might be 
> interested in this.
> 
> I recently ran across this quote from JKR from the Readers Digest, 
> 2000.  "I love a good whodunnit and my passion is plot 
construction. 
> Readers loved to be tricked, but not conned," Rowling says, warming 
> to her theme. "The best twist ever in literature is in Jane 
Austen's 
> Emma. To me she is the target of perfection at which we shoot in 
> vain."
> <SNIP.
>So the question isn't 
> whether, if you've read it, you were tricked by Austen, but whether 
> we are being tricked by JKR, using similar misdirection methods.  
> And, by the way, it isn't just any character that you shouldn't 
> trust.  If JKR is using Austen's method, it would be Harry's point 
> of view, and by extension the narrator's pov, that you shouldn't 
> trust. 

Alla:

Heeee, sorry I am not buying "Harry filter", or at least not 
completely. I am not talking about limitations of the narration  of 
course in that sense "Harry filter" obviously exists.

But not buying "Harry being wrong" about Snape being nasty bastard. 
Sorry, I just don't. Harry can even be wrong about Snape being loyal 
to Dumbledore, he may have not seen or observed everything that 
occurred, but what ever happens between him and Snape - he reports 
IMO very accurately. 

So,what I am saying - that I don't see Rowling would treat us to main 
character being so completely and absolutely fooled as Emma was at 
the end.

For all her talking about liking to trick us, she specifically 
pointed to main issue of HBP, putting us on the "right speculation" 
path ( if such exists of course). Remember? Before HBP came out she 
hinted that we should think why Voldemort did not die. Does not sound 
very tricky to me.

Not that she is giving out the plot, but she is giving direct hints 
sometimes, you know?

And of course the much talked about "anvil sized clues", etc.

So, what am I trying to say?

That JKR "tricky ways" are IMO really not that tricky and because of 
Emma being a love story and Harry Potter is not quite, it is IMO 
perfectly understandable.


JMO,

Alla