Infraction Distraction/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character uses a minor offense to distract from a greater one.

Straight: Hesione puts smuggled books in her desk drawer on folders that contain treasonable letters.
Exaggerated: Hesione confesses to jaywalking, and the police don't glance around and see the corpse of the policeman she killed.
Downplayed: Hesione oversleeps and then makes a delivery before school, and is late; she tells the teachers only that she overslept, and they do not press the matter.
Justified: The police only want to make themselves look good by catching a crook.
Inverted: Hesione parades a minor offense in order to convince people she's really a cool bad girl.
Subverted: The police take Hesione's smuggled books, and return to search again.
Double Subverted: But only for more books; they glance over the letters and do not read them because they are not books.
Parodied: Hesione is holding a butcher knife, covered in blood, and openly dragging a bloody corpse. She gets stopped by the police... for jaywalking.
- Alternatively, she gets caught dumping the body, but the problem is that she was littering.
Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: Hesione tries to cover up her treason by a life of perfect virtue.
Enforced: ???
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