I found Dahlmann's story to be very difficult to grasp because like you said it was very abstract and makes the reader read the story with a funny influence on thoughts. I agree completely with you in regards to Harry's state of being in The Deathly Hallows, which I read twice, and saw the movie twice and still struggle to understand what is really going on. Part of me wants to believe he is asleep, the other wants to say he is dead an saved only by the presence of Voldemort's horcrux inside him. So does that make his conversation real? Can somewhere he's never been, talking with someone who is dead possibly be real? The same question comes up for Dahlmann; can someone who is strapped to the operating table, dying really be visiting the south in his head and have it be real enough to believe? The question isn't really between real and fake, but whatever the reader perceives to be real and fake, and how much they are willing to believe and play along with. I dream at night, but that doesn't make unicorns and dragons real in the world we live in now does it?
I also found it very difficult to try and wrap my mind around all of the ideas being thrown out; like he really went, he dreamt he went, he did not go but it was his choice to go, he did go but it was not his choice, he did not go because fate did not allow it, and he went because fate did allow it. Writing that out and then reading it over it makes no sense to even me, so I don't expect it to make sense to anyone else, but my point is, there are so many interpretations of such an abstract situation and idea that it is nearly impossible to get a grasp on the group conversation.
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