Fred and George...riding for a fall?

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 43128

Although I rather enjoy the Twins' pranks, in some ways, it's largely
because I can understand why they go after the people they do.  However, I
have a dark theory that JKR is setting them up...that, one of these fine
days, one of their pranks is going to go Horribly Wrong...and then nobody
will be laughing.

A lot of their joke thing-a-ma-jigs involve magic; are they necessarily such
competent wizards as to be _sure_ that nothing "can go wrong...go wrong...go
wrong..."?  They take a lot of chances (flying the Ford Anglia in to get
Harry out; I'm sure there could have been another way to crack him out of
there, just for one example) and sooner or later they're going to reach into
their wizard's hats and pull out rabbit scat instead of a rabbit.

Or their pranks could end up biting _them_ in the behind.  Imagine the looks
on their faces when they're facing a bunch of ravening Death Eaters, and
find out that they picked up the wrong wands, so that their wands turn into
joke animals at the worst possible time.