I guess it depends on your definition of "good". Care to quantify yours?
I guess you should quantify your own definition of the word, perhaps in the same post in which you ask someone else to quantify theirs, since you used it first.
I'd say p>0.95 that "Went on a graduation tour abroad and disappeared while visiting Albania." is meant to communicate something to the readers that it does not communicate to the characters.
I'd say p>0.75 that the thing it is meant to communicate is that the hero was compromised by Riddle, like Quirrell was in canon.
I don't expect it to be the same. Voldemort's shade in canon may have had possession capacity that young Tom Riddle did not.
I'd say p>0.5 that the hero was replaced, that Tom Riddle physically played both roles in his own flesh.
Your turn.
(I asked you to quantify what you meant by "good" because I was suspecting you were treating a probability of, say, 30% as "good", and we were getting our terms crossed. Obviously not.)
I'd say p>0.75 that the thing it is meant to communicate is that the hero was compromised by Riddle, like Quirrell was in canon.
Whereas I'd put that at roughly p=0.25.
I mean, sure, it might be trying to communicate that, but, I've got:
"Reader! She's about to undercover the Defense Professor is Voldemort!" as a message intended to be se...
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