Blog Post #1 Confuse the Reader?

I am particularly fond of mysteries, from James Patterson to the Da Vinci Code, I can’t get enough of “who-done-it” scenarios. I guess for that reason, I read Harry Potter mostly as a mystery series, especially for the first two books. For each book, I would always try to piece together what I thought was happening and who was involved. I usually always fell for the red herring as well as coming to completely off the wall conclusions (I thought Crookshanks was an animagus and a bad guy for most of Prisoner of Azkaban, I am not sure why I thought so, but nonetheless I did). Maybe others read the series this way, but maybe not. Even though I read the book like a mystery, I still felt like I could be a student at Hogwarts. I felt like I was part of the story, not just witnessing it from the narrator's eyes.
I feel like we, as readers have entirely different experiences when reading these books. For example, some details stick out more to others. These differences lead to different conclusions. There are some conclusions that I feel like we can’t help but make. I think that is because of the narrator. As muggles, we know nothing about the wizarding world so we get to know it from the narrator’s voice (J.K. Rowling). The reader gets sucked into this world because it is completely different from our everyday occurrences, so it becomes an escape. We don't realize that we have been sucked into the world until we see that it is 5:00 in the morning and we have been reading for the past 12 hours (okay that might just be me as well). We have such trust in the narrator, even though the narrator might not know, or doesn’t reveal (usually the case) all of the information. I think the narrator sets us up to have certain expectations. Whether or not they are actually upheld is another story. With the "who-done-it" mindset, I wanted Dumbledore to explain everything at the end of both book 1 and book 2. He instead gave partial answers. This continues the rest of the series. I am still trying to figure out if the narrator is trying to let us come up with our own conclusions, or purposefully frustrate us.