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17th Jun '13 3:06:24 PM LentilSandEater

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* Most of the time the characters in the ''HarryPotter'' series manage to avoid this, except for the sixth book. While it is true that Harry is always mistaken about something important, most of the other characters refuse to believe that BigBad Voldemort [[spoiler:would recruit Draco Malfoy to the Death Eaters because Malfoy is sixteen. Voldemort has killed entire families, manipulated and tortured others, ripped his own soul apart in an attempt to become immortal and overall has proven that there is no low that he wouldn't sink to to get what he wants.]] They never take that into consideration and write off Harry's suspicions.
** It isn't anything to do with them attributing humanitarian concerns to Voldemort - they don't think that Voldemort hasn't [[spoiler: recruited Malfoy]] because he is [[spoiler: too young]], they think that [[spoiler: Voldemort has no use for a teenage boy, not fully trained as a wizard.]]
*** Except book five had him [[spoiler: manipulating a teenage boy in order to try and get a prophecy so he didn't have to do so himself. By all accounts the Order of the Phoenix should have realized that Voldemort isn't above using teenagers to get what he wants.]]
*** Except for [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] who was even more Genre Savvy than Harry; he knew that if he had [[spoiler:approached Malfoy, Malfoy would have been killed,]] so he bided his time until [[spoiler:they were alone and he could convince him to make a HeelFaceTurn.]] He leaves ''such'' a good impression that [[spoiler:the entire Malfoy family turns away from Voldemort by the end of the next book. Admittedly, they don't necessarily join the anti-Voldemort army, but still...]]
* Arguably, The Limper in Glen Cook's ''BlackCompany'' could fit this trope. Even after the Company [[spoiler:killed him twice, live through what seem at the end to be hundreds of attempts to kill them off, and sent the real BigBad back into his hole in the ground, Limper still thinks he has a chance to kill them by following after them after they leave.]] Needless to say, [[spoiler:he failed miserably, and he wasn't even up against the company at the time, just the people who decided not to go with them.]]

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13th Jun '13 1:34:30 PM woodwardiocom

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The first GL to wear the ring on the left was Alan Scott, and Sinestro didn't have a ring in his first appearance.

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4th Jun '13 11:40:05 AM jatay3

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