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

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 155883

Mike says:  In neither case is Harry surprised by the outcome because he
knows
the truth. But in the case of Lupin cursing Sirius, you said you
would feel cheated. Yet you don't feel cheated that for an entire
chapter we are lead to erroneously believe that Harry spiked Ron's
juice. Yes, I know the degree of importance is not equal, but we are
talking about literary devices, aren't we? Does she need to use
this "non-description" device to make the chapter work? Yes. But you
have to admit that this is JKR *cheating* us, while we are in
Harry's POV

Lynda says:
No, I do not have to admit that JKR is cheating here.  She's
writing the books and she can decide in what manner she wants to do so.  I
didn't feel cheated with the above scene at all,  for one thing, having read
five other books by the same author, I did not really think that Harry would
put real Felix Felicis into Ron's juice!  So I wasn't surprised by the
eventual outcome..