Question: If one isn’t keeping track even which characters have said which quotes (and in this case a quote that jumps out as very much not a Harry thing to say), what makes you confident that you can judge which quotes are intended to be things the author agrees with? This should surely reduce your confidence by a fair bit.
It does, on the fourth quote. But to be fair, I had thought that all of the quotes were by Harry and then went to look them up—I did not look them up and then think they were all by Harry. I might have noticed it, had I done the latter. But once I had looked them up I did not reconsider my previous statement—it was made completely from memory (And I have a collection of upwards of 100 quotes).
Question: If one isn’t keeping track even which characters have said which quotes (and in this case a quote that jumps out as very much not a Harry thing to say), what makes you confident that you can judge which quotes are intended to be things the author agrees with? This should surely reduce your confidence by a fair bit.
It does, on the fourth quote. But to be fair, I had thought that all of the quotes were by Harry and then went to look them up—I did not look them up and then think they were all by Harry. I might have noticed it, had I done the latter. But once I had looked them up I did not reconsider my previous statement—it was made completely from memory (And I have a collection of upwards of 100 quotes).