[HPforGrownups] Re: The Too Unreliable Narrator (was: What really happened on the tower)
Jordan Abel
random832 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 23 16:54:37 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 155870
> Neri:
> Still in
> that same first post I invented the term "unfair non-description" for
> a non-description that the narrator uses to fool *both* the hero and
> the reader, and pointed out that JKR seems to avoid them. I asked for
> any counterexamples and none were found yet.
I think it's a lot more fair if we're fooled because Harry is fooled
(it's not a "non-description" if it really is a misconception Harry
has for one reason or another) than if we have a false impression that
anyone who was actually there never could have gotten.
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Random832
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