What really happened on the tower.

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 155862

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wynnleaf" <fairwynn at ...> wrote:
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> >  
> wynnleaf
> 
>  If this piece of text is actually a bit of misdirection by the
> narrator, where we're expected to think the petrificus totalus is by
> Harry, but really it's someone else -- then there will have to be some
> time in Book 7 when the "truth comes out."
> 
> While I can envision many scenarios for other suspected misdirections
> in which the "truth comes out" in Book 7, I find it hard to come up
> with a reason for why the reader would ever learn that someone else
> performed that particular PT.  It seems to me that Harry would have
> to, for some reason I can't yet conceive, decide to review those
> events in a pensieve.  Why would he do that?  I can't see why he'd
> start to wonder about events in order to want to re-evaluate them. 
> And the rest of the witnesses were all DE's, or Snape.  The only
> reason to do a misdirection here would be if the person that performed
> the PT needed to be kept secret from the reader.  But the secret has
> to be divulged eventually, and this incident seems unlikely to be the
> kind to be addressed again.
> 
> It wouldn't be an unreliable narrator piece of misdirection if we're
> never going to find out the truth.  But I can't think of any reason
> why we *would* find out more about this incident.  While JKR could
> probably come up with something, I can't quite imagine a scenario.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 

colebiancardi:

The only way that I can think of is that someone, perhaps Hermoine,
asks Harry to review what happened that night on the Tower - to place
his memories in the Pensive.  The Pensive will not corrupt nor tell
the POV of the person, it shows without bias.  

That is if Harry would concede to letting his memories be viewed by
Hermoine.  I think one of the things that is fueling Harry is his
hatred, which HE must let go, IMHO, in order to defeat LV.  I know
that some want a bloody murder-fest in book 7;  I doubt JKR will do
that.  I don't believe that is the message she wants to give.  She has
stressed love and compassion and that will be the message she would
want her readers to have in book 7.

but I could be wrong....

colebiancardi