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** It doesn't change the fact that Alliser was telling the truth: The dead are walking, the Others are coming, and the kings and lords of Westeros are too busy fighting each other to do anything about it.
** It doesn't change the fact that Alliser was telling the truth: The dead are walking, the Others are coming, and the kings and lords of Westeros are too busy fighting each other to do anything about it.
*** This is also a major bit of [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] for Tyrion; knowing what a [[Jerkass]] Thorne is, Tyrion refused to see him when he arrived, and kept him waiting for so long that the severed, yet still moving, [[Our Zombies Are Different|wight]] hand Thorne had brought with him had rotted down to the bones. Had Tyrion seen him earlier, he would have been presented with indisputable proof that Thorne was telling the truth, and the course of the whole series might have been dramatically changed.
*** This is also a major bit of [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] for Tyrion; knowing what a [[Jerkass]] Thorne is, Tyrion refused to see him when he arrived, and kept him waiting for so long that the severed, yet still moving, [[Our Zombies Are Different|wight]] hand Thorne had brought with him had rotted down to the bones. Had Tyrion seen him earlier, he would have been presented with indisputable proof that Thorne was telling the truth, and the course of the whole series might have been dramatically changed.
* In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', Malfoy believes Hagrid's Blast-ended Skrewts are abominations of nature. The Skrewts are ''jet-propelled scorpion-leeches'' that eventually grow to be ten feet long {{spoiler|and are apparently illegal hybrids of Manticores and fire-crabs meaning they shouldn't even exist in the first place}}. While Hermoine defends the Skrewts in Hagrid's class out of loyalty to Hagrid, she privately agrees with Malfoy that the Skrewts are horrible monsters.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', Malfoy believes Hagrid's Blast-ended Skrewts are abominations of nature. The Skrewts are ''jet-propelled scorpion-leeches'' that eventually grow to be ten feet long {{spoiler|and are apparently illegal hybrids of Manticores and fire-crabs meaning they shouldn't even exist in the first place}}. While Hermoine defends the Skrewts in Hagrid's class out of loyalty to Hagrid, she privately agrees with Malfoy that the Skrewts are horrible monsters.


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