Maraurders/he exists

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 168355

> Neri (querying whether any new genres are available to describe 
certain anomalies ;)):

> Perhaps you could supply us with the correct literary terms for 
the following techniques: 

> 1. Describing only a single event and let the readers assume 
it is typical, faithfully represents the state of things during 
the whole five years before that.

Goddlefrood:

Post Realism perhaps? I always thouht that SWM accurately 
reflected the entirety of interaction at school between Severus 
and the Marauders :|

> Neri:
> 2. Not even describing this whole event, deliberately leaving 
the impression that it ended in a way that was too horrible to 
describe on page, but not telling us that it indeed ended that 
way.

Goddlefrood:

This one's a no-brainer (for the benefit of our US and Canadian 
friends :)). Surely what is being described here is the new form
of detective genre, that is becoming increasingly popular ;), 
that being The Mystery Left at the End :)

> Neri:
> 3. Adding a title like "Snape's Worst Memory", keeping it 
ambiguous who's PoV it represents (the all-knowing Author's? 
Harry's?) 

Goddlefrood:

I'd have to go with Autobiography, it seemed straightforward
enough narrative to this reader :|

> Neri:
> 4. Making characters talk in a way that appears self-convicting, 
but could in fact mean other things ("it's more the fact that he 
exists").

Goddlefrood:

To borrow a phrase from the world of art for this one: 
"Impressionism" :0)

> Neri:
> 5. Convicting a character using a witness (Lily) who has her 
own issues with him. 

Goddlefrood:

Sounds like what might happern in a typical Court case to me, 
therefore "Transalliteration" suggests itself :-?

> Neri:
> 6. Making several characters behave in an unreasonable way so 
as to downplay certain aspects of the event (everybody ignoring 
the blood on James's face).

Goddlefrood:

"Precognitive Impressionism" springs to mind for this one.

> Neri:
> 7. Making characters that later discuss that event 
unreasonably hide relevant information (Lupin and Sirius 
not telling Harry about Levicorpus being widely used).

Goddlefrood:

Well, many have done this before, perhaps not quite in the same
way, but I would apprehend that the technique was practically
pateneted by Ms. Christie, Mr. Clarke and many others ;)

> Neri:
> 8. Hinting to a parallel with another scene in the same book 
(Dudley and his gang doing Mark Evans) thus suggesting (but 
never confirming) a parallel between the Marauders and Dudley's 
gang.

Goddlefrood:

"Allegory" - existing technique, yes, but used in a novel way by
Ms. Rowling in that no one thought of the parallel :-?

> Neri:
> 9. Using all the above to the same end of suggesting Snape's
innocence, and also tell us that Harry is blaming him for an 
unrelated issue (responsibility for Sirius's death by goading 
him) and then tell us explicitly, over Harry's head, that this 
is to relieve Harry's own guilt, thus creating the impression 
that *any* evidence against Snape in the series is only due to 
Harry's biased PoV. Would this be termed "unreliably unreliable 
narrator?" <g>.

Goddlefrood:

Hang on, the Pensieve always tells the truth :|. There is no room
for any other alternative, therefore, than non-fiction, convinced
as I am that these people exist, man ...

There you have it, Severus innocent of all charges, what a relief,
and I thought he was difficult to understand ;-)