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If someone ''should'' Bug-Out but doesn't, it's probably because they [[Ignored Expert|ignored an expert]] who told them to.
Contrast with [[Last Stand]] and "Shelter-in-place". See also [[Crazy Prepared]] and [[Properly Paranoid]] for characters who are ready to Bug-Out at a moment's notice, and [[Emergency Stash]] and [[Survivalist Stash]] for caches of supplies that would come in handy in a bug-out situation.
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** At the start of her second year, Taylor acknowledges the need to be prepared for a possible emergency exit from Hogwarts, and begins assembling a "bug-out bag" in the Chamber of Secrets.
** At the climax of the story, Taylor arranges an emergency evacuation of all the drugged aurors and Hogwarts staff by the expedient of having all the Hogwarts house-elves take them to St. Mungo's. Unlike the usual bug-out, though, she stays behind to face Voldemort, the Death Eaters, and their allies.
* When agents of the British Wizarding World unknowingly kidnap the daughter of the self-exiled [[Harry Potter]] in ''[[Exposure, a Dark Fic!]]'' by "Bobmin356", one of the first things his employers in the Muggle British intelligence service arrange is to immediately relocate Harry and the rest of his family, in the process completely emptying their house and wiping it clean of any evidence that ''anyone'' had ever lived there. They even go so far as to wipe the family's existence from any records available to agents of the Wizarding World.
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:Within this subgenre, the Bug-Out almost always includes a degree of self-congratulation or validation for those undergoing it (explicit or implicit), as it proves that the characters were "superior" in some manner to the rest of society who had looked down on them for their obsession with preparedness, and thus were "worthy" of survival. It is also frequently cast as a transformative event, allowing "ordinary" people to become [[Big Damn Heroes]], [[The Unfettered|unfettered]] by the restrictions of the decadent society which has died around them.
* ''The Nautical Prepper'' is a non-fiction book by Captain William E. Simpson II, which describes how to equip a sea-going vessel as a "bug-out boat" in which one can wait out disaster or social collapse far out on the ocean.
* "The Ministry has fallen!" Ron, Hermione and Harry's escape from incoming Death Eaters at the end of Bill and Fleur's wedding in ''[[
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