The Too Unreliable Narrator (was: What really happened on the tower)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 155940

Neri:
> > Hmm. Who vouched for Dobby in CoS? Well, you certainly can say 
that
> > he vouched for himself, but that's kind of stretching it, isn't 
it?
> > ...
> > Who challenged Ginny in CoS?

Random832:
> It's not clear to me either what Dobby was innocent of or what Ginny
> was guilty of.
> 
> It's not clear, though, who vouched for Harry, but as the 
protagonist
> he's above suspicion (by the readers) anyway. But who challenged
> Quirrel?

Ceridwen:
Didn't Snape challenge Quirrel?

> > Neri:
> > I am very interested in your rule that no magic has ever been 
used in
> > a plot twist before it was explained to the reader. It needs
> > reformulating, but here I feel we are approaching something a bit
> > more accurate.
> 
> Random832:
> I see it as a back-formation of the rule of Chekhov's gun.

Ceridwen:
I'm interested in this rule, too.  Could you explain what you mean by 
a 'back-formation of the rule of Chekhov's gun'?  Is it perhaps the 
characters, or at least one of them, noticing the gun's presence and 
drawing audience attention to it before the denouement (sp?)?

Ceridwen.