JKR's Misleading the reader and DD

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

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>judtcarol167 wrote (in her fine thought provoking questions)
 
> 4) We later learn that Madam Pince is not the only person 
>  listening behind the shelves: Draco is there as well. JKR is 
> clearly  misleading the reader with a false or incomplete 
> explanation. Can you  think of any other "explanations" that may
> be revealed as misleading in  the future?
>

bboyminn:

<snip>As to 'other' misleading  explanation, I think it is safe to say that
frequently in JKR's world things  are not what they seem, and there
will be plenty of stunning revelation in  the next and final book.
 
Nikkalmati:
Yes, one of the fascinating elements of the series is JKR's concealing the  
things we need to know in plane sight with the clear purpose to deceive  us.  
We then have the fun of these discussions.  It can be hard to  discern the red 
herrings.  With this in mind I recall JKH in an interview  proposed DD's 
family as a fruitful line of inquiry.  What family?  For  someone who has lived 150 
years he appears to have few connections; only Abe  forth, his brother, is 
known to us. He has no descendents and we are told  nothing about his lineage.  
On the other hand, he has connections to phoenixes, which are eternal  
creatures repeatedly dying and being reborn. I am not exactly proposing  that DD is 
a phoenix (although that is possible), but what if he is also eternal  in some 
way?  He could be Griffendor himself (GG) or even Merlin. I was  struck by 
the scene in the Mirror of Eresed where he says to Harry that if he  were to 
look into the mirror he would see himself holding a pair of socks.   He covers up 
by saying something like you can't have too many socks, but a gift  of 
clothes (specifically socks in Dobby's case) is a sign of freedom.  What  if DD is 
caught in an unending cycle of reincarnation, he is tired of it  and wishes 
someone would set him free? 
Nikkalmati



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