Jets of green light (Was: Accidental Harrycrux with a Bloodsucking Snake)

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No: HPFGUIDX 155255

---  "justcarol67" wrote:
>
> Pippin wrote:
> > As you say, there are all sorts of other things JKR uses to show
> that Dumbledore considers Harry more important and don't set up a
> Chekhov's gun. Mentioning the possibility of such an order creates the
> expectation that it will be given. The order wasn't given to Harry,
> and the only other person under his command that Dumbledore spoke to
> before he died was Snape.
> 
> Carol:
> "Chekhov's gun? Is that the same as "smoking gun"? I've never heard
> the expression. (I agree with you that the order almost certainly
> relates to Snape for the reasons you stated and because such an order
> would go a long way toward clearing up events on the tower.)


Hope this helps... : 

A Chekhov's Gun is a Literary technique in which a fictional element
(object, character, place, etc.) is introduced early and in which the
author expects the reader to invest. That investment must 'pay off'
later in the story even if the element disappears offstage for a long
interval.