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== [[Literature]] ==
* In Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld]]'' novels
** Watch Commander Sam Vimes gets this from Lord Vetinari at the end of ''[[Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]''.
** Inverted in ''[[
* At the end of ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'', Harry and Ron get this speech from Dumbledore. At first, it seems that they might actually get expelled, but they get bonus house points for Gryffindor instead, and they win the House Cup.
** Harry goes through this all the time; when the adults and faculty of the school refuse to listen to him, he invariably winds up needing to save the day himself, often breaking a ton of rules in the process. He might get punished along the way, but never suffers at the end of the book. The earliest example is probably when he, Ron, and Hermione defeated a giant Troll loose in the school halfway through Book 1. As Harry stopped listening to the teachers so much in the later books (and the teachers likewise realized it's a good idea to pay attention when Harry says someone wants him dead), the series started to move away from this.
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