[HPforGrownups] Re: Unreliable narrator yet again.

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 178002

From: eggplant107 <eggplant107 at hotmail.com>
>If the narrator had said Harry's parents died in a car crash that
>would indeed be an unreliable narrator, but a narrator saying that is
>what Harry was told is not a unreliable narrator. A narrator can be
>ambiguous, he can leave important stuff out, but I can't think of any
>third person narrator that is an outright liar, at least not in a book
>that is better than a bucket of warm spit. 

Bart:
Douglas Adams would have disagreed. In fact, he went one better; in his text game version of HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (available for free online play at http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocom.php if you want), the game description frequently lies.

Bart