The Too Unreliable Narrator (was: What really happened on the tower)

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 155755

> Neri:
> Of course the narrator is being sneaky here. My point is that there's
> fair sneakiness and unfair sneakiness, and JKR was sneaky in a fair
> way: she told us everything important that her hero had seen and even
> more. She didn't have the hero know or see important things that we
> weren't told about. She didn't describe an incantation being said as
> if by the hero, and later told us that it wasn't him. That IMO would
> be unfair sneakiness, or in JKR's words conning the reader.

I think that using Harry's point of view to deliberately misdirect in
some instances (like by saying James was the one who told Lily [in
front of Petunia] about Dementors) might cross the line into "unfair
sneakiness"

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Random832