Harry's dreams in GoF

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No: HPFGUIDX 165637

Carol:

> But the dreams are different. Harry experiences 
> them, one as Frank Bryce, a complete stranger who 
> ends up getting killed, and one as himself, riding 
> the back of an eagle owl and then shifting to the 
> floor of the room where Voldemort is sitting with 
> Wormtail and Nagini(who also appear in the first 
> dream). How can *Harry* as opposed to the narrator, 
> who can be any place JKR wants him to be, be inside 
> Frank Bryce's mind or on the back of that owl? Voldemort, 
> to whom he's mentally linked by the scar, is in neither 
> place. He's not possessing Frank or the owl.
 
> Is JKR cheating just to provide information that 
> Harry couldn't otherwise know, or is there a logical 
> explanation for Harry to see from a point of view 
> other than Voldemort's in his Voldie dreams?
 
> Carol, who thinks that the eagle owl is Draco Malfoy's, FWIW

houyhnhnm:

I don't have an explanation for why Harry's scar 
connection to Voldemort allowed him to dream about 
Voldemort from another's point of view in GoF. But 
what changed between GoF and OotP was Voldemort's 
use of Harry's blood to restore himself to a body, 
so I would guess that the change in Harry's dreams 
has something to do with the blood connection.

I, too, thought the eagle owl belonged to the Malfoys.  
That dream puzzled me when I first read it and it still 
does.  I have the feeling that there is something 
important in it that I am not getting.