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

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 155892

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova"  wrote:
> Lynda says:
> No, I do not have to admit that JKR is cheating here. 
<snip>
> 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..

Mike responds:

I guess I didn't leave enough of the preceeding post up-thread, 
sorry. I was referring to cheating with regards to the literary 
device that Neri posted, not cheating on the story-line. I wouldn't 
be reading and writing posts on this site if I wasn't enamoured with 
Harry Potter and JKR's writing.

I thoroughly enjoy being tricked by JKR and I always am because of 
the way I read the books. I allow myself to be in the moment, so I'm 
always the last one to know what's going on. That way I'm always 
surprised by anything that JKR intended to be a surprise :-) I 
reserve my analytical reading for my fourth to sixth rereads.