Gred and Forge

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No: HPFGUIDX 72709

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mtwelovett" <mbush at l...> wrote:
> Karen wrote:
> <snip>
>  I haven't seen much come up on our 
> > favorite twins, Gred and Forge--is the general consensus that 
they are 
> > nothing more than comic relief or will their jokeshop contribute 
to
> the eventual 
> > downfall of V?  I keep getting this image in my head of a mob of
> DE's being 
> > slipped a bunch of Nosebleed Nougats or Fainting Fancies ---or
> Canary Cremes--- and 
> > bursting out in feather or dropping like flies in the middle of 
some
> crazy 
> > battle<G>....I think it's interesting that Hermione at one point
> comments on the 
> > uselessness of what they do, yet later shows some interest in how
> complex the 
> > things really are  <SNIP>[and] their actions leaves me looking
> foreward to their 
> > role in the next two books...or do you think I'll be disappointed?
> 
> I really hope you aren't disappointed, since I want to see more of
> them too. I found myself wondering as I was reading OOP the first 
time
> even, what their magic will do to contribute to the greater goood of
> the wizarding world. Let me explain. While they gave one of the
> chasers the wrong part of a nosebleed thing during Quidditch 
practice,
> if the other end works not only for their created nosebleeds, but 
for
> "real" nosebleeds (or other bleeding perhaps) as well, that could 
be a
> very useful MEDICAL discovery. Just as other (of their) charms could
> have other practical, non-joke uses, even if they 
haven't "discovered"
> that part yet. They applied themselves to create jokes but have come
> up with some pretty impressive things that could be very useful. 
Isn't
> that how a lot of discoveries are made, trying to accomplish 
something
> else, and happening to come across something else? It will certainly
> justify their career to Molly, and give her something SHE will think
> to be really proud of. I'd love to see the deatheaters suddenly
> turning into canaries... Sounds like a Bugs Bunny cartoon doesn't 
it? 
> 
> Mtwelovett


My 2 knuts:
I think the twins will join the Order as they have actually wanted to 
do in book 5, and open another joke shop in Hogsmead, maybe run by 
Lee Jordan???.  I think they will distract the DE with some of their 
fireworks......
Fran