Thoughts on The Twins

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 69945

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, RoxyElliot at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/13/2003 7:24:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> psychomaverick at h... writes:
> 
> > Does anyone else find it odd that NO ONE seems to be able to tell 
> > which twin is which?  This sort of suprises me, as it's not even 
> > often that Fred and George's family can distinguish one twin from 
> > another.
> > 
> > Something that really drove this through for me was Molly's 
encounter 
> > with the Boggart.  Every family member - dead - one at a time.
> > Except for the twins, two at once.
> > 
> > I've known some twins in my time, heck my mother is one.  And 
parents 
> > and family members can usually tell two twins apart, but not the 
> > Weasley's.  I suppose Mr. and Mrs. Weasley just lumped the two 
> > together while they were growing up, and never took the time to 
get 
> > to know each as individuals.  
> > 
> > What's really odd is that Fred and George themselves didn't try 
to 
> > distinguish themselves from eachother during adolecence, a time 
when 
> > twins try to find their own identity.  They seem just fine and 
dandy 
> > being refered to "the twins" constantly. 
> 
> 
> Perhaps, coming from such a large family, Fred and George found it 
easier to 
> get attention from their parents as a unit.  I've always thought 
having so 
> many siblings vying for attention is what drove them to be so 
mischievous in the 
> first place.  Also, having a true and trusted friend in a large 
family might 
> make it easier for them.  My grandmother was one of 18 children.  
She didn't 
> have a twin, but always had a close bond with her slightly older 
sister.  Having 
> a sibling ally seems to have made her childhood much easier, and 
I'm guessing 
> that the same might be true for the Weasley twins.
> 
> Roxanne


Not to mention that even in the muggle world of us readers, Twins are 
supposed to be connected through some means that only makes sense to 
them.

We've seen news stories about twins having a seeming Corsican bond 
between them, feeling each other's pain.

We've seen news stories about twins who can carry on conversations 
with each other in a language that no one understands but them. 

I don't think no one can tell the twins apart.  Molly has only made 
the "Call George Fred or vice-versa" mistake once, and she was really 
flustered at the time.


I think they are just so comfortable with each other and the fact 
that they behave as a team/unit most of the time, encourages other 
people to not separate them out one from the other. 

I also think that's why Molly saw the Boggart as "dead twins," not  
Dead Fred and then Dead George.  They're inseperable as if they were 
Siamese twins, so people just don't think of Fred alone or George by 
himself. 

They think of Fred and George together. Always. 

I think the way Fred and George look at it is that they're the only 
set of twins in the Weasley family and that makes /them/ the cool 
ones. 


Indigo