Fred & George's bet

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 16541

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Angela B" <aboyko at n...> wrote:
> I'm rereading GoF, and I have a question. Fred & George bet that 
> Ireland would win the World Cup but Viktor Krum would get the 
snitch, 
> and they were correct.
> 
> My question - how did they know? They bet their entire savings on an 
> unlikely outcome, and these boys are ones who watch their money 
> carefully, it seems.
> 
> I also have a theory - they've figured out, as this list has 
> theorized, that Ron is a Seer. Not much gets by the twins, they may 
> have already discovered Ron can See the future, even if he doesn't
> know it. So they listened to Ron talk in his sleep, or they asked 
him 
> what he thought would happen, and Ron said, "Ireland will win, of 
> course, but Krum gets the Snitch" as a joke.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

It's also possible that, like regular sports fans, they just watched 
both teams in their progress toward the Cup, and compared stats -- and 
knew that Bulgaria had the better Seeker, although Ireland had the 
better chaser.

Sometimes it doesn't require magic to predict an outcome! 

*giggle*

Imagine that.

Indigo
> Angela