Infraction Distraction/Playing With

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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 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: ???
    • Lampshaded: ???
    • Invoked: ???
    • Exploited: ???
    • Defied: ???
    • Discussed: ???
    • Conversed: ???

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