Help! The twins and the bet

[Lady Pensieve]

No: HPFGUIDX 87759

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Derek Hiemforth <derek at r...> 
wrote: Berit Jakobsen wrote:>Iggy is right of course :-) Fred and 
George did an educated bet, no doubt about it! No canon suggesting 
anything else. 
> Derek:
> Well, I wouldn't say "no doubt about it."  ;-)  We also have no 
canon anywhere else suggesting that the Twins are such compulsive 
gamblers that they would put every scrap of money they had in the 
world into a single bet. Granted, the twins are a bit on the wild 
side.  But still... I'd have to be *mighty* sure of something to bet 
everything I had in the world on it...
> 
> - Derek

Let's look at OOP - the twins, still in school, put money down on a 
shop in a very expensive area and began working on their 'product'.  
That's quite the gamble.  Not quite old enough for 'compulsive' 
gambling - yet they definitely do make educated bets. As Hermione 
realized - these guys aren't in it to look smart to others, only to 
enjoy themselves while doing exactly what they want to do.  

Kathy