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lygerzero0zero t1_ja1gjbc wrote

Unsurprisingly, there’s a TVTropes for that:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnspokenPlanGuarantee

> Admittedly, the reason for revealing only failed plans to the audience is obvious. There's no drama in something going wrong if no one knows what was supposed to happen. Conversely, where's the drama in seeing exactly what you were just told would happen? The only exception is when the plan is Crazy Enough to Work; when every bullet point could Go Horribly Wrong, then each success is a big, suspense-building deal. As a general rule of thumb, if things do go according to how the audience is told, you can expect that the characters are walking into a trap.

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J2thaG t1_ja1elzv wrote

I was at a bar, on the back patio, you have to cross the patio from the bar to get to the bathrooms. I was walking back to the bar from the bathrooms, about halfway across the patio and a man with a revolver stepped out of the bar and began firing. Not directly at me per se, but I was alone out in the open, minus the skinny palm tree that I eventually got behind. He ran, we all hid behind the bar and everyone was ok. Once the police came and told us it was ok to come out, saw his body laying in the street out front. Crazy night.

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wildadragon t1_ja1dazx wrote

Gotta read the books, muggle electrical items don't work in the Wizarding world, he used the Elder wand to fix his original wand that got broken then returned the Elder wand with Dumbledore so when he dies the power of the wand dies with him, the Elder wand was created by Death himself so it would be incredibly hard to repair if at all.

Also they were Dementors not ghosts.

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