Danger in designating an "Other" / Bad magic

jkoney65 jkoney65 at yahoo.com
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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