The fact that the conversation doesn’t end with her actually saying Riddle is what would prompt readers to look it up. Are you saying that readers that are still with the fic after eighty chapters haven’t learned enough about rationality to take two minutes to verify an assumption after noticing they are confused?
He said he wasn’t going to lie to us anymore.
If that meant he couldn’t ever make a conversation that seems to be going one way but turns out to be different a few paragraphs later, it would lead to a VERY boring story.
P.S. My point was that the problem that EY fixed was that the obvious thing to check (looking up canon!Riddle’s biography) leads to an apparent confirmation.
The fact that the conversation doesn’t end with her actually saying Riddle is what would prompt readers to look it up. Are you saying that readers that are still with the fic after eighty chapters haven’t learned enough about rationality to take two minutes to verify an assumption after noticing they are confused?
If that meant he couldn’t ever make a conversation that seems to be going one way but turns out to be different a few paragraphs later, it would lead to a VERY boring story.
P.S. My point was that the problem that EY fixed was that the obvious thing to check (looking up canon!Riddle’s biography) leads to an apparent confirmation.