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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Needs to be added to appropriate index(es), started by Seanette on Oct 2nd 2010 at 4:20:39 AM

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Needs Help, started by captainpat on Sep 27th 2012 at 4:00:05 AM

Want to explain the change I made to the Harry Potter example. I removed the bit about Buckbeak being executed AND THEN this event being fixed by time travel. Why? Because this is not the case. Harry, Hermione, and Ron heard the ax thunking, followed by Hagrid wailing something. When Harry and Hermione went into the past and stole Buckbeak, they found that the executioner threw his ax at a tree in frustration and Hagrid was...wailing in joy, I guess.

The point was that the past they remembered included all the tampering they would do in the future. Like how Harry thought he saw his father right before he passed out but later realized he'd seen his future self.

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The myth of Hipplytus and Phadrea in some version (Including some stage versions) Tends in involve either a false accusation of Rape and or Hipplytus being blamed for her Suicide intentionally.

For Mythology and Religion, some people interpret the finale Straw in Haman's demise in the Book fo Esther as one, though probably unintentional, and some argue Xerxes was only pretending to think that's what Haman was doing anyone cause he needed an excuse. At any-rate it's be a pretty rare example of a Protagonist pulling it.

Can you use Mio from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon as an example??? She pulled this ploy on Mamarou then again on Minako to make her look bad to her fans especially Usagi.

"Plover gambit" or "killdeer gambit" would be equally effective terms. (The first is a family of shorebird that does this to distract predators from its young. The second is a specific species of plover especially famous for it.)