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

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 155902

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "wynnleaf" <fairwynn at ...> wrote:
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> 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..... Well, hopefully you get the idea.  The real person who
> will decide what's cheating her readers and what's not is JKR.
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> wynnleaf, who looks forward to all manner of surprises

Renee:

Saying that what's "cheating" is in the eye of the beholder, and that
the real person who will decide what's cheating her readers is JKR, is
a contradiction. If I feel cheated, there's no way JKR can decide that
I'm not; she can only say she didn't mean to cheat. Her ideas of what
constitutes cheating may differ from mine, but that doesn't mean mine
are invalid. 
So, yes, what's cheating is in the eye of the beholder, therefore it's
*not* up to JKR to decide.