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Basic Trope: A character uses a minor offense to distract from a greater one.
- Straight: Hesione puts smuggled books in her desk drawer on folders that contain treasonable letters.
- Exaggerated: Hesione confesses to jaywalking, and the police don't glance around and see the corpse of the policeman she killed.
- Downplayed: Hesione oversleeps and then makes a delivery before school, and is late; she tells the teachers only that she overslept, and they do not press the matter.
- Justified: The police only want to make themselves look good by catching a crook.
- Inverted: Hesione parades a minor offense in order to convince people she's really a cool bad girl.
- Subverted: The police take off Hesione's smuggled books, and return to search again.
- Double Subverted: But only for more books; they glance over the letters and do not read them because they are not books.
- Parodied: Hesione is holding a butcher knife, covered in blood, and openly dragging a bloody corpse. She gets stopped by the police... for jaywalking.
- Alternatively, she gets caught dumping the body, but the problem is that she was littering.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Hesione tries to cover up her treason by a life of perfect virtue.
- Enforced: ???
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