Fred and George: should we worry? (Was: next prank)

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 42671

jenny from ravenclaw wrote:
> Hmmm, maybe they are.  If I look at their "pranks" from another 
> perspective, they could make the twins a force not to be reckoned 
> with.  Turning Ron's stuffed animal into a spider (CoS), changing and 
> hiding Percy's Prefect badge (PoA) and making snacks that turn people 
> into canaries (GoF) may not be so funny if they happened to you.  Ah, 
> and in FBWTF, they obviously destroyed a Puffskein because, as Ron 
> writes to Harry "they used it for bludger practice".  At some point 
> they also feed fireworks to a salamander.  While I have to admit 
> their pranks are quite funny, what they did to the animals was not.
>
> --jenny from ravenclaw, who would not like to be on the receiving end 
> of one of Fred and George's pranks, and might not even laugh if I saw 
> one in action, but I sure love reading them! 
> *****************************

Just a brief commentary: people *do* enjoy being turned into a canary 
by eating a cookie. I can't remember exactly when that happens in the 
books but I'm sure Harry makes an off-hand comment about all the 
Gryffyndors in the common room eating the cookies and shedding yellow 
feathers all over the place, so not all his jokes are cruel on the 
recipient. I think I'd enjoy turniong into a bird for a while. And I 
think that turning Percy's badge and cursing Draco was totally 
justified. I'd admit that the sweets they fed Dudley are a trifle 
dangerous, but they were with their father, who culd counter-curse it.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who enjoys reading about those pranks too