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

[hendlei]

No: HPFGUIDX 156095

> Carol responds:
> Earlier in HBP, information is withheld from both Harry and the reader
> so that we're led to believe, as he does, that Slughorn is the DADA
> teacher, not the Potions master. He even tells Ron and Hermione that
> Slughorn is the DADA teacher, based on his interpretation of that
> withheld information. So, yes, both Harry and the reader can be fooled
> together and quite often we are, especially with regard to Snape but
> also with regard to the Thestrals, the so-called weapon in OoP and
> countless other examples. And how about Ron's rat, who for nearly
> three books is just a rat?
>
> Carol, again noting that "non-description" (your invented term) is
> just one of many tactics that JKR uses to misdirect the reader
>

I went back and very carefully read the part of HBP where the
discussion of Slughorn occurs between HRH. Harry does NOT, in fact,
tell anyone that Slughorn is the DADA teacher. It is Ron who mentions
that he probably is and they all just accept it.

hendlei