Twins Challenge (WAS: Percy challenge)

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 35912

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "moongirlk" <moongirlk at y...> wrote:
> I haven't got the books with me at the moment, and can't be as 
> thorough as I'd like, so these are just top-of-the-head things.
> 
> 1 - Offering to help Harry with his trunk upon their first meeting 
and
> 2 - doing same on other occasions.
> 3 - Making Harry feel welcome when he was sorted into Gryffindor 
(Debbie asks:  I'm not sure what you mean here; do you mean "We got 
Potter?"  That sounds like gloating over the fact that their house 
had nabbed The Boy Who Lived)
and 
> when he was added to the Quidditch team with no experience.
> 4 - Coming to Harry's rescue in the Flying Ford Anglia when he's 
been 
> locked in his room.
> 5 - Along with Ron, explaining a lot of wizard world stuff to Harry 
> and Hermione.
> 6 - Better than Ron, never once expressing any kind of prejudice 
> against those who are different.
> 7 - trying to cheer up Ginny and Harry during CoS (maybe not 
> effective in Ginny's case, but nice, nonetheless).
> 8 - insisting that Percy spend Christmas with the family
> 
> I don't have a lot of time at the moment, so I'll quit here, but if 
I 
> get a chance I'll flip through the books soon to refresh my memory 
> and post more.  But let me add my favorite purely speculative one:
> 9 - Helping Ginny come up with clever rhymes for Harry's Valentine.
> 
> kimberly
> always ready with a good word about a Weasley

After posting this question I concluded that I had been unfair in 
lumping Fred and George together.  As I see it, Fred is the 
ringleader and George the follower in all of their pranks.  George, 
OTOH, is the thoughtful one, who offers to help, offers thanks, etc.  
And your list seems to bear that out, to the extent that I've checked 
it.  George offers to carry Harry's trunk, then gets Fred to help 
him.  George welcomes Harry to the Quidditch team, while Fred 
comments on their improved chances of winning the Quidditch cup.  
George, not Fred, insists that Percy spend Christmas with the 
family.  There are countless others -- George tried to refuse Harry's 
offer of the Triwizard winnings, and thanked him.  George, not Fred, 
was worried about the idea of blackmailing Ludo Bagman.  But I don't 
remember a single positive instance instigated by Fred.  While Nice 
Twin vs. Evil Twin seems too melodramatic, I do think, in the end, 
Fred will prove the most vulnerable of the Weasleys, as I'm not 
convinced he fully shares in the bedrock Weasley loyalty.  (Actually, 
I've said this before, in a post on Cracking.)

So I'd like to revise the challenge to find positive Fred moments 
that might rehabilitate the reputation Fred has created in my mind.

Debbie, forgiving George for his role in all the pranks