Brick Joke/Literature: Difference between revisions

*** And {{spoiler|gets killed off yet again despite Arthur's pains to avoid it}} in the fifth book.

**** Don't forget {{spoiler|Arthur's continued bad luck throughout the sixth book give Agrajag a happy ending}}

* [[Timothy Zahn]] is good at these. In ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]'' the thing Luke found on Dagobah, and Thrawn's vague hints about his plans, became important in the ''[[Hand of Thrawn]]'' duology. Of course, there are still [[What Happened to The Mouse?|dangling plot threads]].

* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series uses this trope extensively, with minor details in one book become important plot points in later books. For example, a brief biography of Albus Dumbledore given in the first book mentions that he defeated the Dark Wizard Grindelwald. It is not until the final chapter in the final book of the series that the reader learns {{spoiler|that Dumbledore had been a close friend of Grindelwald when he was young and that his defeat of Grindelwald brought him into possession of the Elder Wand, a wand of immense power that Lord Voldemort grows to covet.}}