Fred and George Weasley

[erinellii]

No: HPFGUIDX 81084

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "yairadubin" 
<two4menone4you88 at a...> wrote:
> I was just rereading OOP and a horrible thought popped into my 
mind.  
> Fred and George are always portrayed as the ultimate twins 
throughout 
> the books.  They crack "identical evil grins" (GOF), they finish 
each 
> others sentences, they start a business together...basically 
they're 
> portrayed as one character split into two people.  Right??? Well, 
> people can't do that forever.  How many grownup twins do you know 
who 
> are like that?  So, eventually, they're going to have to untwin.  
But 
> as the present circumstances stand, I don't know how that would 
> happen, except...if one of them dies!!!! (dramatic noise in the 
> background)  It would be horrible but the one who lives would 
evolve 
> into his own person and we'd still have a funny character left, and 
> JKR would be able to kill a beloved character for emotional 
response 
> from the readers, but she's still be able to leave us with part of 
> him.  Anyway, those were just my thoughts...Anyone else?
>                                 LUV,
>                                   *Yaira*


If you read carefully, you'll see that they are slightly different. 
Fred is more sadistic.  George is a wee bit more mild-mannered.  I 
doubt that Rowling ever plans to "untwin" them, unless, as you say, 
one of them dies.  I hope not, though.

Erin