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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]''. Scapegrace has a problem that causes him to invent a twin brother, of course he gets every detail right and thinks of everything....except one of the names.
* In ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|Harry Potter]]'', Harry & Ron use Polyjuice Potion to pretend to be Crabbe & Goyle, but their infiltration of Slytherin House is stymied by the fact that they don't know how to get in to Slytherin's chambers. They ask a passing student, but she's from Ravenclaw. Fortunately, Crabbe and Goyle are so dim that they're not really acting out of character.
** They asked the Ravenclaw where the common room was, and were lead there by Draco. They had an [[Oh Crap]] moment when Draco asked them the password, but were saved when Draco remembered it before they did. Other instances of them being out of character for Crabbe and Goyle are when Harry didn't know what Azkaban was and when both of them forgot to laugh at a ''Daily Prophet'' article where Ron's dad gets in trouble with the Ministry.
** In the movie, Harry almost gives it away by still wearing his glasses. He quickly excuses them as reading glasses, causing Malfoy to remark that he didn't know "Goyle" knew how to read.
** [[Chekhov's Gun|The specific example of the location of the Slytherin common room comes up again]] in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Deathly Hallows]]'', when Scabior says people have claimed to be Slytherins when caught by his gang of Snatchers but couldn't say where the common room is.
* [[Alex Rider]] very nearly gets himself killed because of these.
 
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