Author's Note: this is a point of view piece about Harry Potter.
Books, and stories in general
usually include a “good guys” side and a “bad guys” side. Usually the point of view the book is told in is considered “the good side”. Every single Harry
Potter book has remained mainly in the point of few of Harry. The only time
they are not are in the first chapters of the books which usually consist of
someone else’s point of few to show something going on meanwhile, which is
sometimes shown in the “bad guys” point of few.
With Harry’s POV, we feel his
emotions, thoughts, and senses on every situation. If we were in someone else’s
perspective we wouldn’t get to experience his true thoughts or opinions on
events. We would only see what’s on the outside. For instance, when Dumbledore
dies in Harry’s perspective, it’s narrated in a sad, emotional way with Harry’s
mental reactions mixed into it. We wouldn’t get to hear him scream “NO!” in his head if it weren’t in his point of
view or feel his hatred towards the killer.
But what if instead of
feeling Harry’s mental reactions in his point of few, what if we got it from
the “bad guys” view? Mentioned before, what if the whole series was written in the
perspective of Voldemort and his men as opposed to just a chapter? Instead of
Harry being described as a hero you’re rooting for and feeling, Harry is portrayed as a foolish brat who always seems
to escape from death with luck. Instead of rooting for him and wanting him to
kill Voldemort, you’d want him to be defeated by Voldemort. If the Dumbledore scene mentioned before were written
in a Death Eater’s perspective it would probably be written in a more triumph
tone rather than sad and heart hitting. You wouldn’t be sad Dumbledore died,
you’d be relieved the opponent was finally defeated.
