Maybe it's just that I'm a more high maintenance reader: I want the author to put me with one person and let me stay there. I really do find it disconcerting to be trucking along and then- WHAM! No, I'm no longer seeing the scene from Severus' POV, but instead from his gamely tied-up lover Seamus' POV, I really do find myself shaking my head. But like you and others have said (and as I realize I've written *twice*, not once), if there are distinct paragraph breaks to indicate a shift in POV, that's okay. But when it sortof flipflops back and forth, I just get irritated. Others don't.
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Maybe it's just that I'm a more high maintenance reader: I want the author to put me with one person and let me stay there. I really do find it disconcerting to be trucking along and then- WHAM! No, I'm no longer seeing the scene from Severus' POV, but instead from his gamely tied-up lover Seamus' POV, I really do find myself shaking my head. But like you and others have said (and as I realize I've written *twice*, not once), if there are distinct paragraph breaks to indicate a shift in POV, that's okay. But when it sortof flipflops back and forth, I just get irritated. Others don't.