It's also fun how half the time Hermione is a "genius" because she points out something any observant reader figured out pages ago but the characters are weirdly oblivious to, and the other half she pulls something completely out of her ass that JKR just made uphttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1314838073662996481 …
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Maybe when she figures out the cumbersome method Draco Malfoy used to (try to) assassinate Dumbledore with the Vanishing Cabinet? I dunno my eyes kind of glazed over all that
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A lot's been written about how, even though he wasn't perfect, Arthur Conan Doyle was *really good* at the subtle art of the whodunit, writing mysteries that it's fairly unlikely the audience will solve ahead of time but still *feel* like the clues were all there
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Specifically I've seen someone write about how hard it is to write a good "Dr. Watson" character -- i.e. someone whose job it is to be stupid, but not THAT stupid "Very slightly stupider than the average reader"
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You've got to be juuuuuust one step ahead of the Watson so you figure it out *right* before they do and you get to feel satisfied and clever
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If you're, like, ten miles ahead of them all the time (or if conversely everyone's constantly ahead of you jumping to conclusions they didn't adequately explain to a reader of your level of education) then you're just gonna be fucking bored the whole time and throw the book away
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Did you ever read the Brunching Shuttlecocks? Ed's World remains a great example of this. http://brunching.com/edsworld6.html
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