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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Now what would be fun would be to use that repeating as a way to keep the reader focused on the wrong thing so that when the answer appears, you drop a bomb on them because they're expecting something else.  |
Kind of like what JK Rowling did with Snape and Harry's father while hinting there was something else going on so that readers (at least this reader) actually sympathized when Snape reveals the truth (not giving out spoilers here).