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* Happens quite a bit in ''Fanfic/ArcVedProtagonists'':
** In “Coming Right Back”: Yugi was able to get Maximum use out of the spell card United We Stand because he was able to fill his entire field with Kuriboh tokens by the effect of kuritablet, which would only do so after Yuya destroyed a monster. Furthermore, because Yuya attacked one last time after that, Yugi had one open space to be filled with Dark Magician (the monster United We Stand was used with) thanks to Eternal Soul.
** In “Synchro Testing” Yusei would only be able to use the effect of his Synchro Uprising Trap if one of his Synchro monsters was destroyed that turn. Once Yugo used the effect of his Clear Wing Synchro Dragon on Junk Warrior, Yusei was able to play it to allow him to summon [[spoiler:Cosmic Blazar Dragon and win the duel.]]
** In “Shining Warrior, Dark Dragon”, Yuto played Magic Cylinder against Yuma, Which can negate an attack and inflict Damage to his opponent equal to the attack of the monster whom had it's attack negated. [[spoiler:As an added bonus, Yuma's monster actually had an effect that can take it off the field and dodge the trap card, but because Yuma powered it up with Stoic Challenge, he wasn't allowed to activate that effect, costing him the duel.]]
** In “Reluctant Choice”, Atticus using the effect of Red-Eyes Wyvern winds up helping Yuri more then it helped him, as without it, there wouldn't have been enough monsters on the field for Yuri to use as Fusion Material on his next turn.
** In “Dark Fusion”, Jaden's strategy to defeat Dennis heavily relied on the fact that Dennis's Pendulum cards were treated as spell cards while in the Pendulum Zone, both to power up his monsters and to get rid of one to stop it's effect from getting in the way. To make it even more of this trope, Jaden haven't even heard of Pendulum Summoning when the duel started or knew anything about Pendulum cards, Jaden only knew this info because Dennis made use of it on his previous turn.
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* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Ritsuko orders Shinji and Asuka spending more time with Rei, hoping that they help Rei to raise her synch scores. However the result is that Shinji and Asuka are learning things about Rei that neither Ritsuko nor Gendo want them knowing. Even worse, they have helped to Rei to become self-reliant and [[TrueCompanions have bonded with her]], and now she questions Gendo's will, trusts Shinji and Asuka more than she trusts him, and is willing to disobey his orders.

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* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Ritsuko orders Shinji and Asuka to start spending more time with Rei, hoping that they help Rei to raise her synch scores. However the result is that Shinji and Asuka are learning things about Rei that neither Ritsuko nor Gendo want them knowing. Even worse, they have helped to Rei to become self-reliant and [[TrueCompanions have bonded with her]], and now she questions Gendo's will, trusts Shinji and Asuka more than she trusts him, and is willing to disobey his orders.
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* In ''Fanfic/TheChildOfAzkabanLonelyHarvest'', Voldemort and Quirrel bring Harry down into the Chamber of Secrets to be fed to the Basilisk. The Basilisk becomes enraged when he finds out that he was trying feed him a parseltongue and that Quirrel himself was not a speaker, causing the enraged snake to devour Quirrel and become a protector to Harry.

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* In ''Fanfic/TheChildOfAzkabanLonelyHarvest'', Voldemort and Quirrel bring Harry down into the Chamber of Secrets to be fed to the Basilisk. The Basilisk becomes enraged when he finds out that he was trying to feed him a parseltongue parselmouth and that Quirrel himself was not a speaker, causing the enraged snake to devour Quirrel and become a protector to Harry.
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* In ''Fanfic/TheChildOfAzkabanLonelyHarvest'', Voldemort and Quirrel bring Harry down into the Chamber of Secrets to be fed to the Basilisk. The Basilisk becomes enraged when he finds out that he was trying feed him a parseltongue and that Quirrel himself was not a speaker, causing the enraged snake to devour Quirrel and become a protector to Harry.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Atonement}}'': Going to Brockton Bay leads to the deaths of everyone in the Nine except Burnscar and Mannequin and the end of the Slaughterhouse Nine as a threat.
* ''FanFic/AChampionInEarthBet'': In a brutal moment of bad luck, the Simurgh ends up shooting herself with her own Anti Matter Tinker cannon. Which is all the opening the Avatar needs.
* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', [[EvilSorcerer Mordru]] is more than powerful enough to wipe out the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes single-handedly. But he isn't satisfied with his already vasts levels of power so he travels to the actual Hell to make himself one with the essence of Evil. As attempting the merge, though, he put himself in a vulnerable position which gave Colossal Boy and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} the opportunity to destroy him.
* In ''FanFic/ChildrenOfTheAtom'', The Super Mutants stockpile lime to smoke Rivet City's defenders out. Jason uses it on its creators.
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* In the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'', at the climax of the [[BadFuture Dark World Series]], [[spoiler:this is how [[BiggerBad Nightmare Eclipse/Paradox]] is ultimately defeated. Twilight copies her [[TimeMaster time magic]] and uses it to take advantage of how badly Paradox's GroundhogDayLoop plan has screwed up the timeline to [[GondorCallsForAid summon]] the [[CrisisCrossover G1, G2, G3, and (pre-Reign of Chaos) G4 Mane Casts]] in order to use their combined Elements of Harmony to finally defeat Paradox and her PsychoRangers.]]

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* In the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'', at the climax of the [[BadFuture Dark World Series]], [[spoiler:this is how [[BiggerBad Nightmare Eclipse/Paradox]] Eclipse/Paradox is ultimately defeated. Twilight copies her [[TimeMaster time magic]] and uses it to take advantage of how badly Paradox's GroundhogDayLoop plan has screwed up the timeline to [[GondorCallsForAid summon]] the [[CrisisCrossover G1, G2, G3, and (pre-Reign of Chaos) G4 Mane Casts]] in order to use their combined Elements of Harmony to finally defeat Paradox and her PsychoRangers.]]
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* ''Fanfic/{{Dial}}'': The algorithm that Arnim Zola created to track down anyone anywhere in the world for HYDRA's benefit is taken by Jury Rigg!Dial and repurposed into an algorithm to instead identify all HYDRA agents worldwide, allowing SHIELD to excise them precisely.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' fanfic "Los Dos Ernestos", Ernesto's plan to kill Hector backfires because he mistakenly drinks from the poisoned glass and gives Hector the other one.
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* ''[[Fanfic/TheTickvsMyHeroAcademia]]'' had the battle between Eraserhead and the titular Tick be decided when Eraserhead bound Tick with his capture scarf, only to find it just means he made it easier for the invulnerable, superstrong crazy person to bash him around.

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* ''[[Fanfic/TheTickvsMyHeroAcademia]]'' ''Fanfic/TheTickvsMyHeroAcademia'' had the battle between Eraserhead and the titular Tick be decided when Eraserhead bound Tick with his capture scarf, only to find it just means he made it easier for the invulnerable, superstrong crazy person to bash him around.
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* ''[[Fanfic/TheTickvsMyHeroAcademia]]'' had the battle between Eraserhead and the titular Tick be decided when Eraserhead bound Tick with his capture scarf, only to find it just means he made it easier for the invulnerable, superstrong crazy person to bash him around.

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Thinking around Juggernaut's powers is not the same as him being defeated by them.


* In ''FanFic/OriginStory'', Alex Harris stops TheJuggernaut (whose power essentially boils down to the phrase "once he's in motion, he cannot be stopped) not by trying to directly stand before him, as most other superheroes have attempted, but by slamming him at full force from the back, causing him to lose his footing, fall, and roll uncontrollably for several blocks. Once he's knocked off his feet and ''not'' moving, Alex (who is physically stronger than TheJuggernaut is, and can fly) finds the villain easily to take care of. TheJuggernaut is left perplexed why nobody who has ever fought him has thought of doing that before.


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* [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice Psimon]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12882198/3/We-Are-Legion-COMPLETE We Are Legion]]'' wipes Legion's memories entirely when they meet. Then the swarm of bugs Legion previously controlled go berserk and act on instinct, eating every living being in the camp, including Psimon himself.
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* In ''Fanfic/ANightInTheSculptureGarden'', [[spoiler:Irene Adler's plan to blackmail Molly Hooper into helping her backfires when Molly refuses and leaves her stuck as a statue.]]
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* ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': [[spoiler: If Sunset Shimmer had waited for the dance, she could have gotten the crown easily. Instead, she has Snips and Snails steal it early, is caught in the act, and banned from the dance.]]
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* An excellent one from the oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11728619/1/Community-Service Community Service]]'': Voldemort's curse on the Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts position really comes back to bite him, [[spoiler: when Dumbledore gets the EurekaMoment to allow all accused Death Eaters to get off with just community service. Specifically, ''two years mandated community service as DADA professor''. It's so successful that by the time Voldemort gets his body back, Wormtail is the ''only'' free Death Eater left.]]

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* ''[[Fanfic/HarryCrow Harry Crow]]'': Lucius Malfoy has 24 hours to withdraw the contents of his Gringotts vaults and anything left behind after then will be unreachable until his son becomes of age. Lucius is forced to miss the deadline because the Ministry has him under arrest and his wife can't do it for him because he never gave her permission to withdraw more than one hundred thousand Galleons per day. Later he gets another heaping dose when he does send his wife for those hundred thousand and offers the money to Fudge to have the charges thrown out. Fudge promptly charges him with bribery attempt and uses the cash as evidence.

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* ''[[Fanfic/HarryCrow Harry Crow]]'': Lucius Malfoy has 24 hours to withdraw the contents of his Gringotts vaults and anything left behind after then will be unreachable until his son becomes of age. Lucius is forced to miss the deadline because the Ministry has him under arrest and his wife can't do it for him because he never gave her permission to withdraw more than one hundred thousand Galleons per day. Later he gets another heaping dose when he does send his wife for those hundred thousand and she offers the money to Fudge to have the charges thrown out. Fudge promptly charges him with a bribery attempt and uses the cash as evidence.



* In ''[[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/The_Widower_Maker/The_Widower_Maker/ The Widower Maker]]'', Harry uses a poorly-worded Marriage Law that forces half-bloods and Muggleborns to marry into Pureblood families (and turned into all but slaves) to get scot free with killing all the women he is forced to marry and their families. And then uses ''that'' to ensure the law is repealed.

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* In ''[[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/The_Widower_Maker/The_Widower_Maker/ The Widower Maker]]'', Harry uses a poorly-worded Marriage Law that forces half-bloods and Muggleborns to marry into Pureblood families (and be turned into all but slaves) to get go scot free with killing all the women he is forced to marry and their families. And then uses ''that'' to ensure the law is repealed.repealed.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12566128/7/One-Flew-into-the-Cuckoos-Nest One Flew into the Cuckoos' Nest]]'' a jealous Quire tries to psychically lobotomize Harry, only to be turned into a drooling vegetable when Harry's own mutant ability reflects the attack with increased force.
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* In ''FanFic/CrownsOfTheKingdom'', Maleficent falls victim to her own time-twisting spell.

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* In ''FanFic/CrownsOfTheKingdom'', Maleficent falls victim to her own time-twisting spell.spell due to ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' not being made until four years after Disneyland was built.


* ''FanFic/TheStarsWillAidTheirEscape'': [[spoiler:For all his GenreSavvy, [[BigBad Herald]] ends up being defeated by several of his own actions throughout the story. [[KickTheDog Throwing the jar containing the CMC's souls over the waterfall]] not only allows them to be retrieved, but takes away the one thing that might have stopped Pinkie Pie from banishing him to outside of reality the same way he did it to the Princesses. That action in and of itself ends up costing him, as it allows them to fight him at full strength without having to worry about hurting their subjects as they would in Equestria, allowing them to begin winning the fight. This also buys the Mane Six enough time to kill the [[{{Mooks}} Dark Young]] and stop [[SealedEvilInACan Shub-Niggurath's summoning]].]]

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* ''FanFic/TheStarsWillAidTheirEscape'': [[spoiler:For all his GenreSavvy, [[BigBad [[spoiler:[[BigBad Herald]] ends up being defeated by several of his own actions throughout the story. [[KickTheDog Throwing the jar containing the CMC's souls over the waterfall]] not only allows them to be retrieved, but takes away the one thing that might have stopped Pinkie Pie from banishing him to outside of reality the same way he did it to the Princesses. That action in and of itself ends up costing him, as it allows them to fight him at full strength without having to worry about hurting their subjects as they would in Equestria, allowing them to begin winning the fight. This also buys the Mane Six enough time to kill the [[{{Mooks}} Dark Young]] and stop [[SealedEvilInACan Shub-Niggurath's summoning]].]]
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* In ''[[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/The_Widower_Maker/The_Widower_Maker/ The Widower Maker]]'', Harry uses a poorly-worded Marriage Law that forces half-bloods and Muggleborns to marry into Pureblood families (and turned into all but slaves) to get scot free with killing all the women he is forced to marry and their families. And then uses ''that'' to ensure the law is repealed.
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* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': [[SmugSnake Kluge]] unleashed a Kaworu clone to kill his enemies and cause Instrumentality. The boy betrayed him and killed him.

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* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': [[SmugSnake Kluge]] unleashed forms an alliance with [[spoiler:the Emerald Tablet, [[AIIsACrapshoot a Kaworu clone rogue A.I.]]]] to kill his enemies help him and SEELE bring down NERV and cause Instrumentality. The boy betrayed him [[spoiler:After getting inside the Geofront with Kluge's help, the Tablet quickly concludes that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Kluge has outlived his usefulness and killed him.kills him]].]]

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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'' provides us a frighteningly karmic example: [[spoiler:In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/118/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series one chapter]], the [[SpotTheImpostor impostor]] [[Series/KamenRiderGhost Makoto Fukami]] shoots [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Mitsuzane]] from behind, not once, but '''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/120/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series twice!]]''' Which is a callback from episode 26 of ''Kamen Rider Gaim'' where he shoots Kouta in the back.]]
-->'''Mitsuzane:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's very haunting to think that I once shot my friend in the back would eventually bite me in the ass.]]
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* Several villains in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime''. Notably [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek Caan]] and [[spoiler:Colonel Marshall]] in "The Manhattan Conspiracy"... Caan wants to study a Time Lord's regenerative use of the Time Vortex? Give 'im the Time Vortex, then... And [[spoiler:Marshall]] is quite taken with the power of [[WorldWarII the atomic bomb]] -- the two Time Lords of the story plan accordingly.

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* Several villains in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime''. Notably [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek Caan]] and [[spoiler:Colonel Marshall]] in "The Manhattan Conspiracy"... Caan wants to study a Time Lord's regenerative use of the Time Vortex? Give 'im the Time Vortex, then... And [[spoiler:Marshall]] is quite taken with the power of [[WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the atomic bomb]] -- the two Time Lords of the story plan accordingly.
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* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': [[SmugSnake Kluge]] unleashed a Kaworu clone to kill his enemies and cause Instrumentality. The boy betrayed him and killed him.
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* In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', [[FranchiseCthuluMythos Nylarathotep]] tried to drive Asuka to despair. He was successful… to the point that she decided to burn everything down, starting with him.

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* In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', [[FranchiseCthuluMythos [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nylarathotep]] tried to drive Asuka to despair. He was successful… to the point that she decided to burn everything down, starting with him.
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* In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', [[FranchiseCthuluMythos Nylarathotep]] tried to drive Asuka to despair. He was successful… to the point that she decided to burn everything down, starting with him.

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* In the MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha fanfic Infinity, Lindy spends most of chapter 25 getting smacked around by Precia. Near the end, she reveals that she's been sealing Precia's magic the whole time, and electrocutes her with all the magic Precia used during the fight.

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* In the MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Franchise/LyricalNanoha fanfic Infinity, ''Fanfic/{{Infinity}}'', Lindy spends most of chapter 25 getting smacked around by Precia. Near the end, she reveals that she's been sealing Precia's magic the whole time, and electrocutes her with all the magic Precia used during the fight.


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* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'' has the next examples:
** In chapter 8, wanting to pay Rei back for ruining his latest "Annoy Asuka" ploy, Shinji nudges Asuka to take Rei to a shopping trip. Asuka bites the bait... but then she announces that he would carry their shopping bags.
--->The look on Shinji’s face would warm both Rei and Asuka for a long time as he was most definitely hoisted by his own petard.
** In chapter 14, Shinji realizes his planning and scheming has backfired completely.
--->Everything tied back to Shinji’s own scheming. He had been snared in a web of his own making. The phrase ‘hoisted by his own petard’ didn’t even begin to cover this sort of thing.
** Initially, Shinji wanted to get back at his father for abandoning him, but after a while he cast his planned revenge aside because he had found a real family. Then Gendo hurt his family to try to keep him under control. So Shinji ''hurt'' him back.
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MarySue doesn't need to directly overpower canon characters to make FanFiction her own personal PowerFantasy; she can [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turn their powers against themselves]].

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* ''Fanfic/BatmanBeyondRevisited'': If the sadistic [[spoiler:Chainsaw]] isn’t burned to death by his own lighter, he’s killed by his WMD exploding. An explosion ‘’caused’’ by his own lighter.

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* ''Fanfic/BatmanBeyondRevisited'': If the sadistic [[spoiler:Chainsaw]] isn’t burned to death by his own lighter, he’s killed by his WMD exploding. An explosion ‘’caused’’ ''caused'' by his own lighter.



* In the ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'', Big Boss, a dragon who obtained a massive hoard of gems by enslaving and abusing [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the Diamond Dogs]], is defeated when the title character uses his magic to form ''talons from the gems and metals of that very hoard'' , grabs him, and smashes him around repeatedly with them. And ''then'', Vulcan seals his mouth and nostrils shut with that treasure, causing the backfire that blows Big Boss' head off.

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* In the ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'', Big Boss, a dragon who obtained a massive hoard of gems by enslaving and abusing [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the Diamond Dogs]], is defeated when the title character uses his magic to form ''talons from the gems and metals of that very hoard'' , grabs him, and smashes him around repeatedly with them. And ''then'', Vulcan seals his mouth and nostrils shut with that treasure, causing the backfire that blows Big Boss' head off.


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* ''FanFic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': At the end of Season 2, [[spoiler: when Demise is resurrected out of Ganondorf's body, he absorbs the Triforce of Power. However, the Elements of Harmony communicate with it, and turn it against him. The Elements and Triforce then work together to strike him down and render him DeaderThanDead.]]
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10916587/8/A-Lion-and-His-Cub A Lion and His Cub]]'' Umbridge sets off an explosion in the Great Hall to try to convince a social worker that Harry's baby daughter would be safer in Ministry custody. When Harry is seriously injured while protecting her, the social worker ''approves'' his guardianship on the grounds that any good parent would "set aside their entire being for the child."
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10916587/8/A-Lion-and-His-Cub A Lion and His Cub]]'' Fudge and Umbridge engineer an explosion in the Hogwarts Great Hall in order to convince a Ministry social worker that Harry's baby daughter would be safer in Ministry custody. When he shields the infant from the blast at the cost of severe injury to himself, the social worker ''approves'' his guardianship on the grounds that any good parent would "set aside their entire being for the child."

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10916587/8/A-Lion-and-His-Cub A Lion and His Cub]]'' Fudge and Umbridge engineer an explosion in the Hogwarts Great Hall in order to convince a Ministry social worker that Harry's baby daughter would be safer in Ministry custody. When he shields the infant from the blast at the cost of severe injury to himself, the social worker ''approves'' his guardianship on the grounds that any good parent would "set aside their entire being for the child."
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10916587/8/A-Lion-and-His-Cub A Lion and His Cub]]'' Fudge and Umbridge engineer an explosion in the Hogwarts Great Hall in order to convince a Ministry social worker that Harry's baby daughter would be safer in Ministry custody. When he shields the infant from the blast at the cost of severe injury to himself, the social worker ''approves'' his guardianship on the grounds that any good parent would "set aside their entire being for the child."

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