[HPforGrownups] Fred or George (was Merchandise for Christmas...)

[morine10 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 8058

aiz24 at hotmail.com writes:

> Ellen and others who prefer Fred to George or George to Fred, tell me:  
> what's the difference between them, as you see it?  I can't tell who's 
> talking half the time, much less notice a difference in their personalities.
> 

I think that JKR started to differentiate the two in GoF a bit.  Fred seems 
to be more the spokesperson on occaision.  Which is not to say that George 
has no input.  It just says that Fred has been chosen to be the voice.  As 
the sister of identical twins (younger, girls) I can say that this is (as I 
have observed from them over the last 20+ years) the case.  While they are 
both of the same opionion, mind, whatever, there is always one that is the 
voice (or in thier case I like to say mouth).  However, every six months or 
so they tend to switch off on the mouth role.  I guess one gets tired and 
lets the other have a go - who knows.  I've asked them but they don't even 
know that they do it.  


In a message dated 12/29/00 9:11:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
neilward at dircon.co.uk writes:

> It's also true, though, that the twins' closeness serves to exclude Ron and 
> gives him the need for a surrogate brother, which is met in his friendship 
> with Harry Potter.  
> 

Excellent point.  I am very close to my sisters.  However I could never, ever 
be as close as the two of them are to one another.  They know what each other 
is thinking and have their own way of communicating that none of the rest of 
us completely understand.  So Ron could never be that close with those two.  
Hence the importance of Harry.

-Mo

"Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" - Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and 
the Goblet of Fire


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