List of Chekhov's Guns, unanswered questions

Goddlefrood gav_fiji at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 15 09:20:35 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 171785

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Goddlefrood:

There are many, many as yet unexplained matters in the story, 
some of which would be explained, as JKR has stated in various 
interviews relative to a good number of the issues on the snipped 
out list. 

She has, however, also stated that not every single little thing 
would be explained and there is a promised mystery to be left at 
the end. Who is then to say that she is following any literary 
rule? We'll all know quite soon what is explained and what is 
not within the story itself. I would also suggest that if there 
are any dangling matters that were either overlooked or simply 
not felt important enough to include in DH then JKR would at 
some point answer these queries in interviews. There are already 
several lined up for after the release of DH.

One that I note that was not on any of the suggestions so far is 
the little matter of Grindelwald being defeated by Dumbledore. 
This would also lead on to expecting that all the dates in canon 
and their significance being explained. I expect an answer to 
neither of these two before DH is finished. If, however, 
Grindelwald does somehow feature then he has at least been 
set up within the so far published books.





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