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* AndThenWhat: Sport brings this up after Harriet in the newspaper talks about the club, and implies that "certain other people won't want to play a certain game and drink tea". Since Harriet is no longer a problem, there's no reason for the Spy-Catching Club to exist, and there's no reason to be ''playing bridge'' and drink tea. Rachel and Marion refuse to discuss the issue, saying that people who don't want to join can leave. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Everyone promptly does]], except for Laura Peters and Carrie Andrews.
* AwkwardSilence: Happens in a Spy-Catchers Club meeting when Rachel tells her friends about the note Harriet sent to her mother claiming that no one in the class likes Rachel and they're only there for Mrs. Hennessey's homemade cake. No one speaks up to disprove this claim (not even Marion!) and Pinky Whitehead chimes in with: "Well, it's very good cake."
* AwkwardSilence: Happens in a Spy-Catchers Club meeting when Rachel tells her friends about the note Harriet sent to her mother claiming that no one in the class likes Rachel and they're only there for Mrs. Hennessey's homemade cake. No one speaks up to disprove this claim (not even Marion!) and Pinky Whitehead chimes in with: "Well, it's very good cake."
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* AndThenWhat: Sport brings this up after Harriet in the newspaper talks about the club, and implies that "certain other people won't want to play a certain game and drink tea". Since Harriet is no longer a problem, there's no reason for the Spy-Catching Club to exist, and there's no reason to be ''playing bridge'' and drink drinking tea. Rachel and Marion refuse to discuss the issue, saying that people who don't want to join can leave. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Everyone promptly does]], except for Laura Peters and Carrie Andrews.
* AwkwardSilence: Happens in a Spy-Catchers Club meeting when Rachel tells her friends about the note Harriet sent to her mother claiming that no one in the class likes Rachel and they're only there for Mrs. Hennessey's homemade cake. No one speaks up to disprove this claim (not even Marion!) and Pinky Whitehead chimes in with: [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Well, it's very good cake.""]]
* AwkwardSilence: Happens in a Spy-Catchers Club meeting when Rachel tells her friends about the note Harriet sent to her mother claiming that no one in the class likes Rachel and they're only there for Mrs. Hennessey's homemade cake. No one speaks up to disprove this claim (not even Marion!) and Pinky Whitehead chimes in with: [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "Well, it's very good cake.
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''Harriet the Spy'' is a 1964 book by Louise Fitzhugh about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a girl named Harriet who likes to spy on neighbors.]] Two sequels were written by Fitzhugh--''The Long Secret'', published the year after ''Harriet'', and ''Sport'', which was published after Fitzhugh's death. Several other sequels were written afterward by ghost authors. The original was adapted into a movie in 1996 starring Michelle Trachtenberg Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O'Donnell as Ole Golly, which is notably the first theatrical film from Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}; as well as into the movie ''Film/HarrietTheSpyBlogWars'' in 2010.
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** Also Laura Peters is said to be ugly by Harriet while in the movie Harriet refers to her as having a face that looks "pinched" and in a book illustration Rachel is portrayed as a white nerd in glasses and messy hair while the movie has her as a polished (for a 6th grader) preppie who is Asian American.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Carrie Andrews in the book was noted by Harriet to be overweight and not very attractive, this changes in the film where she is a BetaBitch (she is seen hanging out with Marion and Rachel)and her body bulk seems to be in her bustline to the delight of her male classmates.
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** In the movie, Carrie Andrews goes from FatGirl to a girl that is seen with Rachel and Marion in the beginning.
** In the movie, Carrie Andrews goes from FatGirl to a girl that is seen with Rachel and Marion in the beginning.
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* DumbwaiterRide: Harriet breaks into the mansion of Agatha Plummer and gets caught hiding in her dumbwaiter.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The film features Miss Elson less but she plays a much more neutral role instead of favoring some students over others like in the book. At the end, Harriet writes [[spoiler: in the sixth grade newsletter as editor]] that Miss Elson should get a raise for what she had to endure as their teacher that year.
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** The film features Miss Elson less but she plays a much more neutral role instead of favoring some students over others like in the book. At the end, Harriet writes [[spoiler: in the sixth grade newsletter as editor]] that Miss Elson should get a raise for what she had to endure as their teacher thatyear.year.
** Downplayed, but in the book Janie is the one who reads Harriet's notebook to her classmates. The film gives this task to the AlphaBitch Marion, and Janie only turns on Harriet after a mean entry about her is read.
** The film features Miss Elson less but she plays a much more neutral role instead of favoring some students over others like in the book. At the end, Harriet writes [[spoiler: in the sixth grade newsletter as editor]] that Miss Elson should get a raise for what she had to endure as their teacher that
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** Some of the things Harriet writes about her classmates in her notebook fall under this too, such as hoping to kick some of them for no reason, bashing Janie's dream of being a scientist, and calling Sport a "little old woman" for constantly worrying about his father. The film makes a few even worse, like shaming Sport for being poor and wondering why Sport's writer father doesn't get a "''real'' job", and suggesting The Boy with the Purple Socks should hang himself.
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** According to Kathleen Horning, in [[ https://www.hbook.com/?detailStory=spying-louise-fitzhugh an article on Fitzhugh and Harriet]] for ''The Horn Book'' in 2014, Harriet's spy route was not as widespread or as dangerous as a modern reader might think. Everything was relatively close together.
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** According to Kathleen Horning, in [[ https://www.[[https://www.hbook.com/?detailStory=spying-louise-fitzhugh an a 2014 article on Fitzhugh and Harriet]] for ''The Horn Book'' in 2014, Book'', Harriet's spy route was not as widespread or as dangerous as a modern reader might think. Everything was relatively close together.
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** According to Kathleen Horning, in [[ https://www.hbook.com/?detailStory=spying-louise-fitzhugh an article on Fitzhugh and Harriet]] for ''The Horn Book'' in 2014, Harriet's spy route was not as widespread or as dangerous as a modern reader might think. Everything was relatively close together.
--> ''So many critics today say Harriet the Spy is dated because no one would give a child such free rein in a city these days. But looking at Harriet's neighborhood -- her real neighborhood -- I realized that, yes, you would. Even now.''
--> ''So many critics today say Harriet the Spy is dated because no one would give a child such free rein in a city these days. But looking at Harriet's neighborhood -- her real neighborhood -- I realized that, yes, you would. Even now.''
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* JoblessParentDrama: Harriet's friend Sport lives with his dad, who is a struggling writer who can never seem to find work. The drama comes from the fact that Sport is explicitly said to be poor several times.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The film features Miss Elson less but she plays a much more neutral role instead of favoring some students over others like in the book. At the end, Harriet writes [[spoiler: in the sixth grade newsletter as editor]] that Miss Elson should get a raise for what she had to endure as their teacher that year.
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* DisappearedDad: Rachel Hennessey. Also Harriet, in an interesting way. When her father isn't at work, he's mostly unavailable. He does greet her when he comes home from work, and he tries to help her with her MethodActing homework for dramatics class.
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* DisappearedDad: Rachel Hennessey.Hennessey (Marion Hawthorne in the film). Also Harriet, in an interesting way. When her father isn't at work, he's mostly unavailable. He does greet her when he comes home from work, and he tries to help her with her MethodActing homework for dramatics class.
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* BrattyFoodDemand: Apparently, Harriet's first sentence was "Gimme cookie!". She's not a brat, she was just being rude because she was a toddler.
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* BabysFirstWords: Harriet initially thinks her first word was "proceed" and that she said it when she was only six months old. It turns out, she was at a more normal age and her first word was actually "cookie".
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* BabysFirstWords: In the film, Harriet initially thinks her first word was "proceed" and that she said it when she was only six months old. It turns out, she was at a more normal age and her first word was actually "cookie".
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* AlphaBitch: Marion Hawthorne.
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* {{Ojou}}: Marion thinks of herself as one, and doesn't take it well when she realizes that many of her classmates ''don't'' see her that way. For example, she is stunned when a (very slim) majority of the class votes for her to lose her post as editor of the sixth grade page of the school newspaper to Harriet and Beth Ellen. Miss Elson even tells Marion afterward, "Don't count your chicks until they vote for you."
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* ShrinkingViolet: Beth Ellen Hansen, so much that all it takes is a dirty look from Marion to frighten her into submission when the class is discussing their Christmas pageant. She becomes less of one late in the book when she finally stands up to Marion at a Spy-Catcher's Club meeting.
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* BabysFirstWords: Harriet initially thinks her first word was "proceed" and that she said it when she was only six months old. It turns out, she was at a more normal age and her first word was actually "cookie".
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In addition to the above, there's Mrs. Agatha K. Plumber, one of the stops on Harriet's spy route, who one day announces she's discovered the secret of life: to stay in bed all the time and never leave it for anything or anyone (further justifying it by claiming she's using her free time to decide on a career). Then, she's told by her doctor that she is to be bedridden for the rest of her life, and is devastated. Eventually she is told the diagnosis was a mistake, and Mrs. Plumber ends up spending her time doing ''anything'' but staying in bed, including parties and charity work. Harriet is convinced the doctor was tricking Mrs. Plumber to get her out of bed all along.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In addition to the above, there's The rich crazy lady is Mrs. Agatha K. Plumber, one of the stops on Harriet's spy route, who one day announces she's discovered the secret of life: to stay in bed all the time and never leave it for anything or anyone (further justifying it by claiming she's using her free time to decide on a career). Then, she's told by her doctor that she is to be bedridden for the rest of her life, and is devastated. Eventually she is told the diagnosis was a mistake, and Mrs. Plumber ends up spending her time doing ''anything'' but staying in bed, including parties and charity work. Harriet is convinced the doctor was tricking Mrs. Plumber to get her out of bed all along.
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* AwkwardSilence: Happens in a Spy-Catchers Club meeting when Rachel tells her friends about the note Harriet sent to her mother claiming that no one in the class likes Rachel and they're only there for Mrs. Hennessey's homemade cake. No one speaks up to disprove this claim (not even Marion!) and Pinky Whitehead chimes in with: "[[WhatAnIdiot Well, it's ''very'' good ''cake.''"]]
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* AwkwardSilence: Happens in a Spy-Catchers Club meeting when Rachel tells her friends about the note Harriet sent to her mother claiming that no one in the class likes Rachel and they're only there for Mrs. Hennessey's homemade cake. No one speaks up to disprove this claim (not even Marion!) and Pinky Whitehead chimes in with: "[[WhatAnIdiot Well, [[WhatAnIdiot "Well, it's ''very'' very good ''cake.''"]] cake."]]
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* AwkwardSilence: Happens in a Spy-Catchers Club meeting when Rachel tells her friends about the note Harriet sent to her mother claiming that no one in the class likes Rachel and they're only there for Mrs. Hennessey's homemade cake. No one speaks up to disprove this claim (not even Marion!) and Pinky Whitehead chimes in with: "[[WhatAnIdiot Well, it's ''very'' good ''cake.''"]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shy, meek Beth Ellen Hansen, after spending most of the book under Marion's thumb, grows a backbone and tells Marion off along with Sport, Janie and most of the rest of her classmates before quitting the Spy Catcher's Club. Harriet notes that it's probably the longest sentence she's ever spoken.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shy, meek Beth Ellen Hansen, after spending most of the book under Marion's thumb, grows a backbone and tells Marion off along with Sport, Janie and joins most of the rest of her classmates in telling Marion off before quitting the Spy Catcher's Club. Harriet is impressed and notes that it's probably the longest sentence she's Beth Ellen has ever spoken.
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** One of the most delicious moments of the book is when Marion and Rachel experience this upon the dissolution of the Spy-Catchers Club.
** One of the most delicious moments of the book is when Marion and Rachel experience this upon the dissolution of the Spy-Catchers Club.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shy, meek Beth Ellen Hansen, after spending most of the book under Marion's thumb, grows a backbone and tells Marion off along with Sport, Janie and most of the rest of her classmates before quitting the Spy Catcher's Club. Harriet notes that it's probably the longest sentence she's ever spoken.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In addition to the above, there's Mrs. Agatha K. Plumber, one of the stops on Harriet's spy route, who one day announces she's discovered the secret of life: to stay in bed all the time and never leave it for anything or anyone (further justifying it by claiming she's using her free time to decide on a career). Then, she's told by her doctor that she is to be bedridden for the rest of her life, and is devastated. Eventually she is told the diagnosis was a mistake, and Mrs. Plumber ends up spending her time doing ''anything'' but staying in bed, including parties and charity work. Harriet is convinced the doctor was tricking Mrs. Plumber to get her out of bed all along.
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''Harriet the Spy'' is a 1963 book by Louise Fitzhugh about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a girl named Harriet who likes to spy on neighbors.]] Two sequels were written by Fitzhugh--''The Long Secret'', published the year after ''Harriet'', and ''Sport'', which was published after Fitzhugh's death. Several other sequels were written afterward by ghost authors. The original was adapted into a movie in 1996 starring Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O'Donnell as Ole Golly, which is notably the first theatrical film from Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}; as well as into the movie ''Film/HarrietTheSpyBlogWars'' in 2010.
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''Harriet the Spy'' is a 1963 1964 book by Louise Fitzhugh about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a girl named Harriet who likes to spy on neighbors.]] Two sequels were written by Fitzhugh--''The Long Secret'', published the year after ''Harriet'', and ''Sport'', which was published after Fitzhugh's death. Several other sequels were written afterward by ghost authors. The original was adapted into a movie in 1996 starring Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O'Donnell as Ole Golly, which is notably the first theatrical film from Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}; as well as into the movie ''Film/HarrietTheSpyBlogWars'' in 2010.
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* AdultsAreUseless: No grown-up in this story was wise enough to see under Marion's mask.
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* AdultsAreUseless: No grown-up in this story was wise enough to see under Marion's mask. Especially Miss Elson. Arguably the only adults in the book who aren't are Ole Golly and the psychiatrist.
* BetaBitch: Rachel Hennessey.
* ChildrenAreCruel: The ways in which Harriet's classmates retaliate against her for the hurtful things she said in her notebook, but ''especially'' the ways in which Harriet herself retaliates against them by hitting them in their sore spots - hiding a frog in Marion's desk knowing that Marion hates frogs; making rude comments to Rachel about her missing father; and so on.
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* KarmaHoudini: Harriet's teacher Miss Elson, who bullies her as badly as (and in some cases ''worse'' than) the children. She is never caught by another adult and therefore never punished for her actions, though Harriet causing "bedlam" by putting a frog in Marion Hawthorne's desk sends her on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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* KarmaHoudini: Harriet's teacher Miss Elson, who (perhaps unwittingly) bullies her as badly as (and in some cases ''worse'' than) the children. She is never caught by another adult and therefore never punished for her actions, though Harriet causing "bedlam" by putting a frog in Marion Hawthorne's desk sends her on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
* LateToTheRealization: While spying on her classmates during Spy Catcher Club meetings, it takes Harriet a while to realize that ''she'' is the "her" they keep talking about.
** In the book, it's less of a speech and the victim is Rachel instead of Marion, but the outcome is the same.
** As does purposely ruining a cake the family cook is baking by stomping the floor, causing the cake to fall.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Harriet eats tomato-and-mayonnaise sandwiches every day for lunch, drinks/eats egg creams at the cafe while on her spy route, and has cake and milk when she gets home from school. Also, Sport eats hard-boiled eggs for lunch, but that's all he can afford.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Harriet eats tomato-and-mayonnaise sandwiches every day for lunch, drinks/eats egg creams at the cafe while on her spy route, and has cake and milk when she gets home from school. In fact, her classmates use her love of tomato sandwiches against her later by ridiculing her for eating them and then by actually ''stealing'' her lunch. Also, Sport eats hard-boiled eggs for lunch, but that's all he can afford.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Harriet gives an absolutely soul-crushing one to Marion in the film, revealing that all the stories she tells about doing special fancy things with her father are lies and that she hasn't seen him in years. She then tells her that it's because he doesn't love her. She may be the AlphaBitch of the film, but the look on her face afterwards makes you want to give her a big hug.
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** Also her reaction when she heads home from [[ItMakesSenseInContext a night at the theaters past her curfew]], and is greeted by her parents wondering where she is at her nanny's doorstep.
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''Harriet the Spy'' is a 1963 book by Louise Fitzhugh about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a girl named Harriet who likes to spy on neighbors.]] Two sequels were written by Fitzhugh--''The Long Secret'', published the year after ''Harriet'', and ''Sport'', which was published after Fitzhugh's death. Several other sequels were written afterward by ghost authors. The original was adapted into a movie in 1996 starring Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O'Donnell as Ole Golly; Golly, which is notably the first theatrical film from Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}; as well as into the movie Film/HarrietTheSpyBlogWars ''Film/HarrietTheSpyBlogWars'' in 2010.
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* EveryoneHasStandards:
** The class turns on Harriet for writing nasty things about them. They are horrified, however, when Harriet starts to fight back, and the whole thing blows over during Harriet's suspension.
** Sport is the only former friend of Harriet who actually gets scared when he sees her lashing out, namely when she shoots a DeathGlare at him during class. He also notices when she cuts off Laura Peters's hair so that it has to be shaved. She's told him that she sneaks into a house using a dumbwaiter and knows that she could tell everyone he has to read cookbooks and keep house. When Harriet tries to go to his apartment after she's suspended, however, he's not quite ready to make up with her and refuses to invite her to dinner to celebrate his dad's newest paycheck.
** The class turns on Harriet for writing nasty things about them. They are horrified, however, when Harriet starts to fight back, and the whole thing blows over during Harriet's suspension.
** Sport is the only former friend of Harriet who actually gets scared when he sees her lashing out, namely when she shoots a DeathGlare at him during class. He also notices when she cuts off Laura Peters's hair so that it has to be shaved. She's told him that she sneaks into a house using a dumbwaiter and knows that she could tell everyone he has to read cookbooks and keep house. When Harriet tries to go to his apartment after she's suspended, however, he's not quite ready to make up with her and refuses to invite her to dinner to celebrate his dad's newest paycheck.
* FinaglesLaw: Harriet goes to talk to Janie and Sport after she sees a child psychologist. Unfortunately, Janie drops a corrosive chemical by accident and refuses to talk to Harriet when the latter offers to help clean it up. Sport in the meantime is celebrating with his dad about the latter selling a book. Although Harriet is trying to make peace, his dad keeps interrupting and invites her to a celebratory dinner. It's not until the end of the book when the three become friends again.
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* HumiliationConga: Happens to Harriet. She gets started on causing one for everyone in the Spy-Catching Club, but her parents interfere and get her to a child psychologist to find the real problem and a solution.
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* NoSympathy: Harriet gets none after her notebook is read, even though she's subject to severe bullying and several pranks. It was quite cathartic to read of her KickTheSonOfABitch moments during her {{Revenge}} and for the parents to finally understand that she needs her notebook and she needs to write when confiscating the book makes her go on a ExtremeRevengeMelee.
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* NoSympathy: Harriet gets none after her notebook is read, even though she's subject to severe bullying and several pranks. It was quite cathartic to read of her KickTheSonOfABitch moments during her {{Revenge}} and for the parents to finally understand that she needs her notebook and she needs to write when confiscating the book makes her go on a ExtremeRevengeMelee.ExtremeMeleeRevenge.
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** Harriet's reaction when everyone else reads her notebook.
** Sport's reaction when Harriet tosses a ball of paper at his ear and shoots a DeathGlare at him. He has the same reaction when she tries to apologize at his apartment later.
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* TraumaticHaircut: Harriet cuts off a chunk of Laura Peters's hair after sneaking a frog into Marion Hawthorne's desk. Laura doesn't even notice, though Sport does. Harriet's mother later complains that thanks to Harriet, Laura's head will have to "practically be shaved".
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* CrazyCatLady: The birdcage maker Harrison Withers. He's got 26 cats, and the health department is after him. They get him in the end and take away all his cats. But then at the end of the book, he sneaks in a little kitten... Awwwww.
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* CrazyCatLady: The birdcage maker Harrison Withers. He's got 26 cats, and the health department is after him. They are implied to get him in the end and take away all his cats. But then at the end of the book, he sneaks in a little kitten... Awwwww.kitten. GenderInverted as he is a crazy cat ''man''.
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* {{Pilot}}: A rare example in literature. The chapter detailing Harriet's first day at school reiterates a lot of things we already know. This is because it was the original first chapter that Louise Fitzhugh sent to her agent. Her agent asked several questions about the characters, which Fitzhugh answered in the form of additional chapters that took place before the original first chapter. This explains why the book structure is lopsided, with Book One being much longer than the other two, and why the IncitingIncident takes place more than halfway through the book.
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* DoubleEntendre: When Harriet spies on Ole Golly during her date, her boyfriend takes her to a German restaurant. Harriet knows Ole Golly hates German food, and expects her to complain about it when she asks her about the date. However, when Harriet does so, Ole Golly said it was a wonderful restaurant, and she tried several new types of wurst. Harrier, baffled, wonders if part of being in love is eating a lot of sausages.
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* DoubleEntendre: When Harriet spies on Ole Golly during her date, her boyfriend takes her to a German restaurant. Harriet knows Ole Golly hates German food, and expects her to complain about it when she asks her about the date. However, when Harriet does so, Ole Golly said it was a wonderful restaurant, and she tried several new types of wurst. Harrier, Harriet, baffled, wonders if part of being in love is eating a lot of sausages.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Harriet enacting {{Revenge}} on the meaner classmates bullying her after writing a list of what to do to each member of the Spy-Catching Club. The best part? Though it's implied that she gets suspended, her parents ''finally'' get the memo that she's acting out in response to their NoSympathy and the kids' bullying and hire a child psychologist to understand their daughter. The minute they do, they can help Harriet with her outlets:
** Asking Rachel about her DisappearedDad and stating that Rachel's dad doesn't love her. Rachel breaks down in tears.
** Giving Laura Peters a TraumaticHaircut that requires the latter's head to be "practically shaved".
** Putting a frog in Marion Hawthorne's desk, which leads to Marion going home sick and causing the teacher to nearly have a nervous breakdown.
** Asking Rachel about her DisappearedDad and stating that Rachel's dad doesn't love her. Rachel breaks down in tears.
** Giving Laura Peters a TraumaticHaircut that requires the latter's head to be "practically shaved".
** Putting a frog in Marion Hawthorne's desk, which leads to Marion going home sick and causing the teacher to nearly have a nervous breakdown.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Harriet enacting {{Revenge}} (see below) on the meaner classmates bullying her after writing a list of what to do to each member of the Spy-Catching Club. The best part? Though it's implied that she gets suspended, her parents ''finally'' get the memo that she's acting out in response to their NoSympathy and the kids' bullying and hire a child psychologist to understand their daughter. The minute they do, they can help Harriet with her outlets:
** Asking Rachel about her DisappearedDad and stating that Rachel's dad doesn't love her. Rachel breaks down in tears.
** Giving Laura Peters a TraumaticHaircut that requires the latter's headto be "practically shaved".
** Putting a frog in Marion Hawthorne's desk, which leads to Marion going home sick and causing the teacher to nearly have a nervous breakdown.find better emotional outlets.
** Asking Rachel about her DisappearedDad and stating that Rachel's dad doesn't love her. Rachel breaks down in tears.
** Giving Laura Peters a TraumaticHaircut that requires the latter's head
** Putting a frog in Marion Hawthorne's desk, which leads to Marion going home sick and causing the teacher to nearly have a nervous breakdown.
