Someone talked about the chapter being in “fantasy mode”. My first thought was that they were saying that the chapter might be a dream. This doesn’t seem to be what they meant, but the chapter is so odd in terms of the overall story that I don’t want to entirely exclude the hypothesis.
At that point, the hard thing is thinking of a way that it being a dream or other sort of hallucination wouldn’t be completely infuriating. I’m not sure if it “Harry has an enemy who’s attacking him in his dreams” would be good enough, though that would be a very Harryish nightmare. Maybe it’s his subconscious telling him that Quirrell isn’t entirely trustworthy.
I usually do not like dream episodes if they are not well hinted at. It often feels like a cheap excuse to blow everything up without hurting the status Q.
Someone talked about the chapter being in “fantasy mode”. My first thought was that they were saying that the chapter might be a dream. This doesn’t seem to be what they meant, but the chapter is so odd in terms of the overall story that I don’t want to entirely exclude the hypothesis.
At that point, the hard thing is thinking of a way that it being a dream or other sort of hallucination wouldn’t be completely infuriating. I’m not sure if it “Harry has an enemy who’s attacking him in his dreams” would be good enough, though that would be a very Harryish nightmare. Maybe it’s his subconscious telling him that Quirrell isn’t entirely trustworthy.
I usually do not like dream episodes if they are not well hinted at. It often feels like a cheap excuse to blow everything up without hurting the status Q.