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I notice there's an example from Hamlet in the literature section. Wouldn't it be better in theater?

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I'm afraid I don't see why this example is here:

Dumbledore accepts a kid into his school who's a werewolf and once a month goes into rampage for several hours.
You'd Expect: him to equip a secluded, soundproof, padded room somewhere in the dungeons, behind an inconspicous or, better, a hidden door. When the full moon approaches, escort the kid there under invisibility charms, lock the door and keep guard while he's transformed.
Instead: They either build or use a shack at the outskirts of the nearby village, make an underground tunnel leading there from the school grounds and plant a belligerent tree above the entrance to guard it, then bring Lupin there without any concealment. Like all overly-complicated and contrived solutions, it eventually fails and nearly leads to the death of another student.

Just how did it fail? The only people who ever found out about it were the werewolf's three closest friends, two of which were regarded as the brightest students to ever attend the school, and the student who nearly died, who was tricked into going there by one of the werewolf's friends in the hope that he'd get killed.

Personally I think it worked quite well; no-one else found out or was put at risk, and nor was anyone ever able to get into the shack (including two expert pranksters) and find out the secret.

Edited by jaydude1992

I'd like to maybe add this as an example, but I'm not sure how to phrase it under the "You'd Expect" and "Instead" sections, but anyway: In [1] Nedry attempts to escape with the embryos, but first he needs a distraction, so he hides a bit of code that shuts down everything and then erases all evidence of itself. However, this being despite the fact that, the electric fences falling under the heading of "everything", the dinosaurs are easily able to kill him due to his cunning plan. (Note: I'm also unsure about posting this because, I'm not sure, but there might be some detail I'm forgetting. Please tell me if there is.

Is this an example...of what?

• In Deathly Hallows: Voldemort has come face to face with Harry. He also knows the Avada Kedavra curse has a long history of backfiring against him.
  You'd expect: Voldemort would employ a smidgen of creativity. Use the Imperius curse to make Harry perform Psychic-Assisted Suicide, or use Levicorpus and drop him from 800 feet in the air onto a hard surface.
  Instead: He uses Avada Kedavra again. It fails again. Then he is told why it failed and why it will fail again and proceeds to use it again, killing himself.
  • For the record, Imperius wouldn't work. Harry proved in Book 4 that he can beat it easily.

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