The Twins....

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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Date: 8/7/00 5:03 pm  (ET)

> Possibly a spoiler....

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> I love the twosome.

Before GoF, I thought them rather tiresome off the Quidditch pitch
.. the difference would be that you apparently like practical jokes and
slapslick, and I usually don't like them and prefer wordplay. In GoF,
I guess it was their thoughtful concern for their future that humanized
them to me.

> With their grades not being as high as those
> Weaselys above them,

We know that Ron said in SS that even tho' the twins goof around a lot,
their grades aren't bad. Not merely manufacturing but *inventing* all
those magical joke toys must have taken a lot of magical knowledge as well
as magic power, showing that if they had chosen to apply themselves to
schoolwork instead of to memorizing every secret passage and trick door at
Hogwart's, their grades would have been as good as Bill's and Charlie's.

> The canary creams,

Is that a pun on some real life (tm) candy? Anyway, what the trick
candy causes is a temporary Transfiguration, which implies that they
were experts in Transfiguration if only they had bothered to turn in
the homework and write essaays on the written exams.

> Another thought that occurred to me. The Quidditch team didn't play
at all GoF year. Next year is George and Fred's last year--who on earth
can they get to replace them? Wood is already gone, and they need a new
captain. Will one of the twins become the captain next year? They have
the knowledge!

I suspect that one reason there was no Quidditch all GoF year is that JKR
was avoiding the question of the new Captain and new Keeper. *I* think
that Fred and George will be co-Captains. Hogwarts under Dumbledore is
not the kind of place that would force them to split up if they don't
want to. Someone said that they are too irresponsible to be Captain,
but I think it would teach them so responsibility (running a business
is already teaching them some responsibility!).

So I am more interested in who will be the new Keeper. I get the
impression that the Keeper should be a physically large person, so it
is very unlikely to be a second-year ... I don't know if it would be any
satisfaction to Ron to finally get on the team but only as a second-choice
type of player ... I like the idea that it would be Muggle-born Dean
Thomas, the fan of West Ham soccer football, in a position that it
probably took him a year and a half to learn to stop calling 'goalie'
.. I also like the idea of it being a girl, a big muscular girl who
rooms with Hermione, Parvati, and Lavender, but Hermione dislikes her
because she's anti-intellectual and Parvati and Lavender make fun of
her for being so big and unfeminine and tell her that she'll have to
marry Hagrid because men don't like women taller than they are. Then she
suddenly becomes a star by brilliant performance in her first competition
Quidditch match, boys are lining up to talk to her at break, and Parvati
and Lavender are fawning on her.....