Fred & George's Abilities

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 74893

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ejom723" 
<julwalker7614726 at a...> wrote:
> My children and I were watching CoS the other evening and my 
youngest 
> son kept asking me why Ron is afraid of spiders, so I told him of 
> when Ron was (I believe) three Fred & George turned his teddy bear 
> into a spider. (I believe this is stated somewhere either in CoS 
or 
> SS/PS canon.)  Think for a moment that if F& G are two years older 
> than Ron, at five they were transfiguring a teddy bear into a 
> spider.  That's one serious piece of magic for five year olds 
> considering that thing isn't taught until first year at Hogwarts 
> (turtle to tea pot, etc.).  Not to mention the fine peice of magic 
> they performed in the halls before they left with their swamp.  
Even 
> Professor Flintwick was impressed with it.  It got me to thinking 
> that these boys through all their silly jokes and lack of ambition 
> for what Percy would term "real work" that there is much more than 
> meets the eye to these boys and that they are much more powerful 
> wizards than is being let on in the books.  Look for them to be 
more 
> active in the OoTP in book six and seven.
> 
> Jules, who wishes she knew some of Molly's "householdy" spells.

It may be that they pickedup some precocious magic skills from their 
older brothers, Bill and Charlie.  I've often noticed that children 
who have a number of older siblings can come up with some 
startlingly advanced knowledge.  

On a more prosaic note, very often the younger children in a larger 
family become Santa Claus "Non-believers" fairly early on because 
older siblings frequently can't resist sharing the truth of this.

June

PS The dishwashing spell especially, actually dammit, any of them 
would be fine with me too.