Fred, George, and my brother aren't bullies :-)

[redandgoldlion]

No: HPFGUIDX 43262

I know many people think Fred and George are bullies. I don't 
think they are. Please don't take this personally; these are just my 
views.

First I would like you all to know that I am *not* out of high
school yet; I was verbally bullied throughout elementary school, 
though I wasn't in middle. I don't know if some of you have forgotten 
what it's like to not be adult, but *not* being an adult is all I've 
ever known, and I think you should all try very hard to remember. (No 
offense to anyone, as a matter of fact, I should probably follow my 
own advice when talking to my younger brother and cousins and try to 
remember what being a kid instead of a teenager is like.):-) 

My brother, Rick, is going into the 7th grade. We fight; we fight 
*a lot*. He has been known to steal my things, and steal my pet hermit
crabs, break my things, hurt my feelings, etc.

Did he mean to steal? Yes, indeed he did. Did the twins mean to 
steal Percy's badge (I don't remember where this was in canon) No 
question. Of course they did. Now I didn't enjoy Rick's grubby paws 
on my things. It was a mean of him. At the time I found *no* humor in 
it. Now, though, I can see it was just a joke. He meant it to bother 
me, sure he did, but he didn't want make me ruin me. And, by the way, 
I solved the problem just the same as Percy did; I chased him around
the room. I was really angry, but I didn't run to Mom, I countered 
immature action with immature action.

As for the hermit crab incident, he snuck into my room, stole it, 
and lost it. About a year later we found it in a dead in a closet! I 
was angry and upset. That was *my* pet he did that do! I was 
furious. He puposefully stole my pet and the result was my pet's 
death. Did he mean for it to die? No, he just wanted to steal it to 
bother me. He didn't want to *kill* the creature. Did Fred (I think 
it was Fred) mean to cause serious injury to Ron's puffeskin? (Is 
that what it's called?) No, he probably didn't. I can just see him 
saying to himself, "Hmm...If I steal his pet and pretend to use it as 
a bludger, he'll be really mad! Haha! That will teach him!"

When my brother meets my friends for the first time, he treats 
them terribly. This *isn't* because he dislikes or hates them. He 
doesn't even *know* them! He takes one look at them and says to 
himself, "If they're *her* friends, they *can't* be nice. Do my 
friends and I take this personally? No. Rick=sibling, sibling=enemy. 
It's well known. You stick to your own. They do the same things to 
their siblings. If you're poor, you're friends are usually poor, and 
which group is your group's enemy? The rich group! If you're smart, 
your friends are usually smart, and you usually dislike the dumb kids.
(PC, eh?-heehee)  If your in Gryffindor, your friends are in 
Gryffindor. Who are your enemies? Slytherins like Malcolm of course! 
It wasn't anything personal when they hissed at him. They are 
enemies. Capulets vs. Montagues, Republican vs. Democrat, and 
Gryffindors vs. Slytherins. You have to be able to accept the fact 
that by merely being part of one group atomattically makes you hated 
in another group. I have 3 groups at friends at school. I like them 
all a lot. Unfortunately I *know* that one day soon two of the groups 
are going to push me away simply for associating with the other 
groups. I don't like it. I don't even think they'll mean to do it. It 
will just happen. It happens in the real world so I guess people like 
me and Malcolm just need to learn to deal with it.

Once Rick released some of his "pet" crickets into my room because 
I told him I was going to tell Mom to make him keep his cricket in 
the cage. (She said if they got all over the house then he'd have to 
get rid of them and I kept finding them everywhere.) He meant it to 
really upset me. He did. I hate crickets and he knew it. It was nasty 
of him. He *didn't* want to cause me real harm, though. Much like 
when Fred turned Ron's teddybear into a spider. That was *really* 
mean. It was meant to be mean. Yes, I don't deny it, it was a 
downright terrible. My point is Fred and Rick didn't do it to be 
cruel, they did it for revenge.
 
I have tried to point out the things about the twins that seem to 
worry people the most. Sure, these things were pretty bad, but it 
happens. My brother is not bully. These things weren't cruel. They 
were simply not-very-well-thought-out pranks.The things I have listed 
are some of the worst things he's ever done to me, and they *aren't* 
terrible. He is just a teenage boy who loves to pick on his older 
sister who actually, wonder of wonders, *tries* in school. I do stuff 
to him, he does stuff back. After all, acid lollipop *does* deserve 
cockroach cluster. :-) Sorry, this post was longer than intended.
  
~redandgoldlion~