Unreliable narrator yet again.

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 177990

"Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:

> He'd lived with the Dursleys almost 
> ten years, ten miserable years, as 
> long as he could remember, ever since
> he'd been a baby and his parents had
> died in that car crash. 

If the narrator had said his parents had died in A car crash that
would indeed be a perfect example of an unreliable narrator, and of a
crappy book; but JKJ didn't say that, she said "died in THAT car
crash"; misleading but not downright untrue. 

 >  JKR, at Kodak Theatre :
> "Although [Dumbledore] seems to be so benign
> for six books, he's quite a Machiavellian figure,
> really. He's been pulling a lot of strings.
> Harry has been his puppet," she explained. 
> "When Snape says to Dumbledore [toward the end
> of 'Hallows'], 'We've been protecting [Harry] 
> so he could die at the right moment' — I don't 
> think in book one you would have ever envisioned 
> a moment where your sympathy would
be with Snape rather than Dumbledore."

Wow, I haven't read that before. If JKR really said that (I hope she
did) then she confirms everything I've been saying; Dumbledore loves
Harry but he will betray him if necessary. And it turns out it is
necessary.  
  
Eggplant