[HPforGrownups] Re: The Too Unreliable Narrator (was: What really happene...

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

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.wynnleaf

>Does this mean, Lynda, that if I am not surprised if  Harry turns out
not to have PT'd Fennir, that JKR wasn't cheating? I mean, I  didn't
really think Harry did that PT. So if *I* don't feel cheated, is  JKR
in the clear?

>My point is simply that what's "cheating" is in  the eye of the
beholder. There's no literary imperative that says that JKR  can't use
this device -- even in the situation of the PT on Fennir. And if  JKR
did it some places -- and perhaps you felt it wasn't cheating there  --
and then JKR does it with the PT on Fennir, and *I* don't think  it's
cheating....ch<snip>
 
Nikkalmati:
I guess that the Fennir PT situation is a potential clear-cut  
non-description.  If Harry did the PT, he knows it and we don't.  No  non-description cheat.
If Harry did not do the PT, he does not know who did  it and we don't either. 
 If the PT turns out to be important in Book 7, we  both have been fooled?  
Is this right?
 
Nikkalmati (having trouble getting her mind around this  concept)


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