Danger in designating an "Other" / Bad magic
jkoney65
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Sun Aug 5 23:24:24 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 174585
> Carol responds:
>Snip>
And part of that journey, the only part I'm concerned
> with here, is the clearing of Harry's perception. By the end of the
> novel, the narrator, reflecting Harry's pov, is no longer
unreliable.
> "Dumbledore's betrayal was almost nothing," DH Am. ed. 692) is one
of
> the last instances. Another is "Dumbledore had overestimated him. He
> had failed" (693). The last instance I can find is "He saw the mouth
> move and a flash of green light and everything was gone," which
tricks
> us for a second into believing that Harry is dead.
Jack-A-Roe:
Don't all those statements actually make the narrator and Harry
incorrect?
Dumbledore didn't betray him, he manipulated the scene with Snape
because he couldn't give them the truth otherwise Harry's sacrifice
wouldn't have been so selfless.
Up to that point their was one other horcrux left, but he did also
inform Neville who eventually killed it. So he didn't really fail.
Well we know the flash of green light didn't really kill him.
So it seems like all three examples were incorrect.
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