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** Though, to be fair, she did know that was unusual, and that most people didn't have that ability. She simply assumed that it was her dragonrider ancestry that accounted for it, and that all dragonriders (of whom she'd met none at that point) would have that ability
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'':
** Until the middle of ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' (when he does it in front of an audience for the first time), Harry assumes that all wizards can [[Sssssnaketalk|talk to snakes]]—in fact, he doesn't even realize he's speaking a different language when he does. In the sixth book, it takes him some time to understand than Morfin Gaunt is speaking [[Sssssnaketalk|Parseltongue]] in the [[Pensieve Flashback]], as he only hears it as perfect English.
** Not an innate ability, but when Harry is told the legend of the Deathly Hallows, {{spoiler|one of them is a mythical cloak which granted the wearer true invisibility and never lost its power... which Harry soon realizes is the cloak he'd had since his first year at Hogwarts, and had always assumed was an ordinary (if rare) magic cloak.}}
* Ayla from ''[[Earth's Children]]'' has an exceptionally well-trained memory for a Cro-Magnon. Of course, she was still considered to be "slow of memory" amongst her adoptive Neanderthal tribe. But once she is amongst her own people, they are constantly baffled by her surprising memory. Oh, and her ability to detect lies from body language. And her advanced gifts as a healer. And her domesticated animals. [[Canon Sue|And...]]
* In the ''[[Foundation]]'' series, the Mule briefly mentions that it took him a while to realize he could control people's emotions, and even longer to realize other people couldn't.
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