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An informal LogicalFallacy where a generalization is made that is [[ExactWords technically accurate]], but has so many exceptions that the group which is generalized is significantly smaller than the arguer implies, and so small as to make the statement essentially meaningless.

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An informal LogicalFallacy UsefulNotes/{{Logical Fallac|ies}}y where a generalization is made that is [[ExactWords technically accurate]], but has so many exceptions that the group which is generalized is significantly smaller than the arguer implies, and so small as to make the statement essentially meaningless.

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* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'': If you engage Moe the bartender one of his responses is "Oh, my life is in a crapper. But other than that, ah, you know, I'm fine".

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* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'': ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'':
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If you engage Moe the bartender one of his responses is "Oh, my life is in a crapper. But other than that, ah, you know, I'm fine".fine".
** One of Lisa's DummiedOut lines is "I'll eat anything! As long as it's organic, vegan, and cruelty-free".
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* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'': If you engage Moe the bartender one of his responses is "Oh, my life is in a crapper. But other than that, ah, you know, I'm fine".
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* ''[[://www.fanfiction.net/s/12467979/13/Harry-Potter-and-the-Chamber-of-Secrets Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'':

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* ''[[://www.''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12467979/13/Harry-Potter-and-the-Chamber-of-Secrets Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'':

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11950925/8/Harry-Potter-and-the-Interlude Harry Potter and the Interlude]]'' Luna mentions that she and her father went to Croatia and found a Wioprine, whichis bright blue and has five horns.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11950925/8/Harry-Potter-and-the-Interlude Harry Potter and the Interlude]]'' Luna mentions that she and her father went to Croatia and found a Wioprine, whichis which is bright blue and has five horns.


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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6279029/1/Presence Presence]]'':
-->Days went by, and Harry found himself back on the roof. But this time something was off. He could feel something different. He frowned, wondering what was wrong. He trusted his instincts. They hadn't been wrong yet.\\
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Okay, well, there was that one time, when he thought Snape was the one after the Stone... and then when he'd thought Malfoy had opened the Chamber... and when he'd thought that Sirius was really a murderer... and when he- Okay, so he's made some mistakes! But the point was, he was ''sure'' this time.
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-->"Be quiet." Harry tuned back in to Daphne hissing angrily at a group of third-years who hadn't turned their attention to the Deputy Headmistress quickly enough for her tastes. He hid a smirk as the group fell silent under her glare. Daphne could channel McGonagall's imperious demeanor quite well when she chose to. He was immune to it, thankfully. But then he was pretty much immune to everyone but his mum, Andi and Mali anyway. To a lessor extent Mr Granger could quell him, but that was about it. Well, maybe Ginny and Hermione too... and Luna, definitely her. Ok, maybe he wasn't as immune as he wanted to believe.

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-->"Be quiet." Harry tuned back in to Daphne hissing angrily at a group of third-years who hadn't turned their attention to the Deputy Headmistress quickly enough for her tastes. He hid a smirk as the group fell silent under her glare. Daphne could channel McGonagall's [=McGonagall=]'s imperious demeanor quite well when she chose to. He was immune to it, thankfully. But then he was pretty much immune to everyone but his mum, Andi and Mali anyway. To a lessor extent Mr Granger could quell him, but that was about it. Well, maybe Ginny and Hermione too... and Luna, definitely her. Ok, maybe he wasn't as immune as he wanted to believe.
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->'''Jake:''' Rules are made to be broken.
->'''Amy:''' They were made to be followed. Nothing is made to be broken.
->'''Jake:''' Uh, piñatas.
->'''Rosa:''' Glow sticks.
->'''Jake:''' Karate boards.
->'''Rosa:''' Spaghetti when you have a small pot.

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->'''Jake:''' -->'''Jake:''' Rules are made to be broken.
->'''Amy:''' -->'''Amy:''' They were made to be followed. Nothing is made to be broken.
->'''Jake:''' -->'''Jake:''' Uh, piñatas.
->'''Rosa:''' -->'''Rosa:''' Glow sticks.
->'''Jake:''' -->'''Jake:''' Karate boards.
->'''Rosa:''' -->'''Rosa:''' Spaghetti when you have a small pot.



* In the ''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'', when Kyoto became such a dreamworld the Imperial government stopped giving a shit about running the country, the only way to people to protect their shit from criminals was to ''hire a samurai!''. Everybody was hiring samurai! Correction: Rich important people hired samurai. Poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai.
* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPU5HMtNa5Q I Got Married... To A Scammer!]]," Kitboga's character promises the scammer to watch any television channel he wants once they're married, so long as it's [=HGTV=], Discovery Channel or FOX News.

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* In the ''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'', when Kyoto became such a dreamworld the Imperial government stopped giving a shit about running the country, the only way to for people to protect their shit from criminals was to ''hire a samurai!''. Everybody was hiring samurai! Correction: Rich important people hired samurai. Poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai.
* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} Platform/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube.Platform/YouTube. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPU5HMtNa5Q I Got Married... To A Scammer!]]," Kitboga's character promises the scammer to watch any television channel he wants once they're married, so long as it's [=HGTV=], Discovery Channel or FOX News.
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* Creator/{{Gooseworx}}, in her 2023 video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEqp3-8tXs "No April Fools Day Video This year..."]], claims that she has "never missed an April Fools day upload except for 2017 and 2015 and 2013 and 2011".

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In its most extreme form, this trope borders on ByNoIMeanYes. Compare OverlyNarrowSuperlative.

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In its most extreme form, this trope borders on ByNoIMeanYes. Compare OverlyNarrowSuperlative.
OverlyNarrowSuperlative, HypocriticalHumor, and ImmediateSelfContradiction.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11950925/8/Harry-Potter-and-the-Interlude Harry Potter and the Interlude]]'' Luna mentions that she and her father went to Croatia and found a Wioprine, whichis bright blue and has five horns.
-->Harry had never heard of blue animals before, well except for some fish and whales, and some birds, and lizards, and frogs, and wow, there were a lot more blue animals than he had thought.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13542780/17/Harry-Potter-and-the-Lady-of-the-Lake Harry Potter and the Lady of the Lake]]'':
-->"Be quiet." Harry tuned back in to Daphne hissing angrily at a group of third-years who hadn't turned their attention to the Deputy Headmistress quickly enough for her tastes. He hid a smirk as the group fell silent under her glare. Daphne could channel McGonagall's imperious demeanor quite well when she chose to. He was immune to it, thankfully. But then he was pretty much immune to everyone but his mum, Andi and Mali anyway. To a lessor extent Mr Granger could quell him, but that was about it. Well, maybe Ginny and Hermione too... and Luna, definitely her. Ok, maybe he wasn't as immune as he wanted to believe.
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* In ''City in Fear'' if you ask Clancy for further info on murder victims Carlos, Michael and Larry, he states his belief that they were aliens.
-->'''Clancy:''' Yeah boss, hear me out. The plaza is a well known hotspot for paranormal investigations.\\
'''Player character:''' Is it?\\
'''Clancy:''' Yes, boss. It says so in my latest copy of the ''Alien Hunters Guide'' and that's never been wrong before - oh, except about the bit where it said George Bush was going to be abducted by aliens and replaced with a cabbage during his first year in office, oh and the time they said Bill Clinton was actually Richard Nixon in disguise, oh and maybe a couple hundred other things... ''Anyway'', they said the plaza is a hotspot for aliens so I reckon these three guys were aliens and they came here to meet their alien cronies only this alien assassin - and [[AmbiguousSyntax that's some guy who assassinates aliens, boss, not some guy who's an alien who assassinates]] if you get my drift - I reckon this alien assassin came here an' assassinated 'em. So whatdo you think, boss?
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* ''[[://www.fanfiction.net/s/12467979/13/Harry-Potter-and-the-Chamber-of-Secrets Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'':
-->Down and down he went. The pipe was wet and nasty with slime and as he whizzed past he noticed other pipes branching off. But none were as big as this one. The drop steepened and Harry picked up even more speed. Really, if it weren't for the circumstances it would have been fun. It wasn't any different from the slides at the water park in Disney World after all.\\
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Well, except for the slime. And the stench. And the deadly snake that could kill you with just its eyes that was probably waiting for them at the bottom. And the Heir of Slytherin... But other than that, yeah, it was great fun.
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12273541/12/Harry-Potter-and-the-Muggle-s-Daughter Harry Potter and the Muggle's Daughter]]'' mentions that Lily refers to Hermione as Harry's partner in crime.
-->Harry thought that a bit unfair, they didn't really cause that much trouble. Well, aside from the incident with the chemistry set and picnic table... and the anti-belching potion they'd reversed and tricked Sirius into drinking... and the time they'd washed his swim trunks in itching potion... and when they had tried to use a vanishing charm to clean the chicken coop and ended up plucking the chickens bare instead... The resulting feather tornado had been really cool though. But other than that there wasn't much; except maybe the diet coke and mentos incident with the six girls who had ganged up on Hermione as she'd been on her way to meet him and pushed her in the river. But they had all deserved it, and even though he'd been made to apologize to each of the girls for making them sick, Harry hadn't been repentant at all. Harry couldn't help smiling at the memory. Alright, he conceded, maybe he and Hermione did tend to cause a bit of mayhem.
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* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'': When Tigger is introduced, Pooh asks him whether Tiggers like honey and Tigger assures him that "Tiggers like everything". When he discovers he actually doesn't like honey, this becomes "everything except honey", so Pooh suggests he try haycorns, after which it becomes "everything except honey and haycorns", and eventually "everything except honey and haycorns and thistles". When the matter of finding something Tigger ''will'' like is brought to Christopher Robin, Tigger still insists that he likes "everything there is in the world" except everything he's actually tried.

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* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'': When Tigger is introduced, Pooh asks him whether Tiggers like honey and Tigger assures him that "Tiggers like everything". When he discovers he actually doesn't like honey, this becomes "everything except honey", so Pooh suggests he try haycorns, after which it becomes "everything except honey and haycorns", and eventually "everything except honey and haycorns and thistles". When the matter of finding something Tigger ''will'' like is brought to Christopher Robin, Tigger still insists that he likes "everything there is in the world" world", except everything he's actually tried.
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* ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'': When Tigger is introduced, Pooh asks him whether Tiggers like honey and Tigger assures him that "Tiggers like everything". When he discovers he actually doesn't like honey, this becomes "everything except honey", so Pooh suggests he try haycorns, after which it becomes "everything except honey and haycorns", and eventually "everything except honey and haycorns and thistles". When the matter of finding something Tigger ''will'' like is brought to Christopher Robin, Tigger still insists that he likes "everything there is in the world" except everything he's actually tried.

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These fit better under Rhetorical Question Blunder, since they're phrased as answers to a question rather than exceptions to a general claim.


** Nobby Nobs is insistant that he didn't sell all the army's weapons when he was quartermaster in the Pseudopolis army. The weapons were just sometimes taken away for cleaning and maintanance. When pressed, he estimates that they were in maintanance approximately 100% of the time.

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** Nobby Nobs is insistant insistent that he didn't sell all the army's weapons when he was quartermaster in the Pseudopolis army. The weapons were just sometimes taken away for cleaning and maintanance. maintenance. When pressed, he estimates that they were in maintanance maintenance approximately 100% of the time.



* During a "Good Burger" segment of ''Series/AllThat'', Ed asks the manager "have I ever let you down?" The manager replies "Yes, many times," and mumbles off a short list as he walks away.



* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Marten tells Pintsize to be good while he's out. Pintsize asks, "When am I not good?" Marten doesn't even bother replying, and it turns out Pintsize has (at the very least) 472 examples on his hard drive.



* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica tries to persuade Chuckie (and the rest of the babies) to work on her lemonade stand:
-->'''Angelica:''' Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie. Have I ever lied to you?\\
'''Chuckie:''' Well, there was that time you told me that [[BigFriendlyDog Spike]] was my brother.\\
'''Angelica:''' Time to play lemonade! Okay, let's go.\\
'''Chuckie:''' And the time you told me [[IAteWHAT rocks was food]], and the--
* ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'':
-->'''Cleo:''' C'mon, have I ever steered you wrong?\\
'''Clifford:''' Well, actually...\\
'''Cleo:''' Never mind.
* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' [[TheSmartOne Kyle]] refuses to invite [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Cartman]] to his birthday party because he's a JerkAss and always [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain insults Kyle for being Jewish]]. Cartman asks when he ''ever'' said anything insulting about Kyle's Jewishness. Cue a [[FullyAutomaticClipShow montage of past times Cartman said something anti-Semitic]].
-->'''Cartman:''' ...Okay, maybe that ''one'' time.



* In ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' "Grim Reaper Gutters", the Aqua Teens are killing time [[spoiler:hoping that Dan from Grim Reaper Gutters will finally leave]]. At one point Frylock asks the others if they remember the time he saved their asses. Meatwad and Master Shake indignantly deny that ever happened and ask him to name one time he saved them. Cue a clipshow featuring many occasions when Frylock did just that, which turns out to be a video recording Frylock somehow made and set to rock music.
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--> '''Peter:''' We'll have a happy new life and we will have equal rights for all...except blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Jews, gays, women, Muslims, uhmm...everybody who's not a white man. And I mean white-white, so no Italians, no Polish, just people from Ireland, England, and Scotland. But only certain parts of Scotland and Ireland. Just full blooded whites. No, you know what? Not even whites. Nobody gets any rights. Ahhh...America!

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--> ---> '''Peter:''' We'll have a happy new life and we will have equal rights for all...except blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Jews, gays, women, Muslims, uhmm...everybody who's not a white man. And I mean white-white, so no Italians, no Polish, just people from Ireland, England, and Scotland. But only certain parts of Scotland and Ireland. Just full blooded whites. No, you know what? Not even whites. Nobody gets any rights. Ahhh...America!



-->'''Peter:''' And don't say the economy or Iraq or income inequality or racism or Brett Kavanaugh or air pollution or Vietnam or slavery or Watergate or capitalism or [=#MeToo=] or homelessness or police brutality or homophobia or Monica Lewinsky or school shootings or Native American genocide or FOX News or Tim Allen or climate change.

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-->'''Peter:''' --->'''Peter:''' And don't say the economy or Iraq or income inequality or racism or Brett Kavanaugh or air pollution or Vietnam or slavery or Watergate or capitalism or [=#MeToo=] or homelessness or police brutality or homophobia or Monica Lewinsky or school shootings or Native American genocide or FOX News or Tim Allen or climate change.
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* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'': "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

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* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'': "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, [[WhatTheRomansHaveDoneForUs what have the Romans ever done for us?"us?]]"
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14061559/1/My-Absolute-Pleasure My Absolute Pleasure]]'' Harry complains about a bad blind date.
-->'''Harry:''' And then he asked me if I 'get much tail, being a hero and all', and that was the point that my insides died and I gave up hope of ever finding someone to love me. I'm going to be one of those old cat ladies.\\
'''Kingsley:''' Except for the fact that you're not yet even remotely old, you're not a lady, old or otherwise, and you don't like cats.






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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10914042/10/Sympathetic-Properties Sympathetic Properties]]'':
-->Harry waited with bated breath as his best mate seemed to give it his full attention and he swore on his potentially-Slytherin grandparents if everything somehow worked out with his two best friends he'd never say anything bad about Slytherins again. ''Except for Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle,'' he added to himself. ''And all those other idiots like them. And Snape; definitely Snape.'' The potions master had earned his spot as pride of place on his list of detestable Slytherins.

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* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPU5HMtNa5Q I Got Married... To A Scammer!]]," Kitboga's character promises the scammer to watch any television channel he wants once they're married, so long as it's [=HGTV=], Discovery Channel or FOX News.



* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPU5HMtNa5Q I Got Married... To A Scammer!]]," Kitboga's character promises the scammer to watch any television channel he wants once they're married, so long as it's [=HGTV=], Discovery Channel or FOX News.

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* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is ''WebVideo/TitlePending'': Caleb says he'd fight a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPU5HMtNa5Q I Got Married... To A Scammer!]]," Kitboga's character promises the scammer to watch any television channel he wants once they're married, so bear for Bayden, as long as it's [=HGTV=], Discovery Channel or FOX News.neither black, brown nor white. Meaning any of them.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13190181/2/To-the-Letter To the Letter]]'' Harry decides to self-study Potions during fourth year instead of attending classes.
-->'''Harry:''' [Imitating Snape] Instructions are in the book. The only real difference is that the book has a lot more charisma. And less grease. And that I can read the whole thing and see if there are any safety instructions to keep myself from blowing up when the Slytherins throw something into my cauldron.

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** ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'' brings this up as well for the FantasyCounterpartCulture of Greece, Ephebe, and again when democracy is introduced to the Kingdom of Lancre.

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** * ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'' brings this up as well for also parodies the Athenian example with the FantasyCounterpartCulture of Greece, Ephebe, and again when democracy is introduced to the Kingdom of Lancre.Lancre.
** The philosophers in Ephebe scoff at the idea of gods as relics of an outmoded belief system. Then make exceptions for an increasing number of individual gods as they all send an ImpliedDeathThreat based on their domain, such as thunder from a clear sky. After confirming that they are well away from the nearest snowy mountains, they take some time to mock the god of avalanches, until Brutha brings up that it seems unusually cold.
** Nobby Nobs is insistant that he didn't sell all the army's weapons when he was quartermaster in the Pseudopolis army. The weapons were just sometimes taken away for cleaning and maintanance. When pressed, he estimates that they were in maintanance approximately 100% of the time.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13299443/12/Departure-from-the-Diary Departure from the Diary]]'', Harry tries to argue against [[GenderFlip Tamelyn's]] insistence that all Muggles hate anyone who's "different", saying that just because she had bad experiences doesn't mean they're all like that. Yet when he starts thinking it over, Harry realizes that the Dursleys, his teachers, the neighbors, and every other Muggle he's ever met has been exactly the same.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13299443/12/Departure-from-the-Diary Departure from the Diary]]'', ''Fanfic/DepartureFromTheDiary'', Harry tries to argue against [[GenderFlip Tamelyn's]] insistence that all Muggles hate anyone who's "different", saying that just because she had bad experiences doesn't mean they're all like that. Yet when he starts thinking it over, Harry realizes that the Dursleys, his teachers, the neighbors, and every other Muggle he's ever met has been exactly the same.

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-->Harry still couldn't quite get his mind around that one. . . all his detentions weren't even detentions! Snape was just helping him study, because…well, he really didn't know why. Maybe Snape just liked making him work. Maybe he liked sneering at him and making out like Harry was dim or something. Except, Snape didn't make as much fun of him as he used to. . . he wasn't even very mean and spiteful, most of the time. . . .\\

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-->Harry still couldn't quite get his mind around that one. . . all his detentions weren't even detentions! Snape was just helping him study, because…well, because...well, he really didn't know why. Maybe Snape just liked making him work. Maybe he liked sneering at him and making out like Harry was dim or something. Except, Snape didn't make as much fun of him as he used to. . . he wasn't even very mean and spiteful, most of the time. . . .\\


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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14165647/1/Lilies-are-Lovelier-Than-Narcissus Lilies are Lovelier Than Narcissus]]'' Draco tries to court Theo by presenting him with a carved flower representing Draco's mother's name. Theo refuses him.
-->"What's wrong with my flower?"\\
"You didn't carve it—"\\
"Besides that! You wouldn't have rejected me if it was just that."\\
Theo wanted to say that he would have, but it was true that he might at least have considered Draco's suit if he had followed all but one bit of proper protocol. And if he hadn't spoken insultingly. And if he hadn't got there too late. And if he hadn't been ''Draco''.

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