To kill or not to kill and resolutions of the storylineWAS :Re: Disarming spell

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 185558


> Carol:
> You yourself have argued that Harry wouldn't know who those people
> were. He can't tell a Ravenclaw from a Slytherin out of context
> (especially when they're in their pajamas--which would pretty much
> distinguish them from Death Eaters and made any students stand out
> clearly had any joined Voldemort's little party in the forest), nor
> can he distinguish the parent of a kid he doesn't know from a
> Hogsmeade shopkeeper.
> 
> Magpie:
> No, I haven't argued that Harry doesn't know these people, I've 
> argued that the narrator is telling me who I should see coming 
> through the door so that's what I see. I think the whole discussion 
> about who Harry knows personally is completely irrelevent to reading 
> this line.

Carol responds:
Sorry to waste a post, but I was addressing Pippin. She's the one who
said (IIRC) that Harry doesn't recognize people from other Houses or
even his own unless they're classmates or on the Quidditch team, a
point that jkoney and I have also made.

Carol, who sees no point in continuing to argure our differing
interpretations of this passage