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* [[Harry Potter]], despite being [[The Chosen One]], frequently gets this treatment in his own books, ''especially'' from his best friends. So much so that Dumbledore freely admits that part of his [[Batman Gambit]] in the seventh book is ''counting on'' Hermione's [[Arbitrary Skepticism]] to slow Harry down long enough to think things through properly.
** Harry's not the best example, as he's usually very, very wrong (he knows what's going to happen, but he's usually wrong about who), and in hindsight its obvious that listening to him would have been a bad idea.
** In a way, Professor Trelawny is a reverse Cassandra, as the only time she dismisses one of her predictions is when it's correct. The most obvious example is when she predicts that {{spoiler|Peter Pettigrew}} will return to Voldemort. A more subtle one occurs in ''[[
* The title character of Barbara Hambly's ''Antryg Windrose Chronicles'' uses Holmes-ish deductive reasoning to figure out things that everyone else then assumes only the villain could know. Between that and his checkered past, he's ''never'' believed by anyone in a position of authority - and on the rare occasions when this is not true, he winds up being banned, banished and locked up anyway for telling [[Bearer of Bad News|truths people don't want to hear]]. Fortunately, he has the patience of a saint.
* Astrid in Garry Kilworth's novel ''House of Tribes'' is known far and wide for her prophetic powers. Naturally, when one of her visions is politically inconvenient, everyone comes up with reasons to assume she's wrong and blunders ahead anyway. After her vision comes true, her prophetic stock shoots up twenty places...until the next vision, which is again inconvenient and is again ignored by quite a lot of characters. There's a message in there somewhere.
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