Disliking the next to die

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 96235

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "naamagatus" <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
> wrote:
> > > Naama wrote:
> > > I actually predict a twin dying (George, I'm afraid, is toast). 
> > This 
> > > is because it covers the required Weasley death, makes for a 
> heart 
> > > breaking tragedy, but doesn't really leave structural holes, so 
> to 
> > > speak, in the story. Our hearts will go out to poor old Fred, but 
> > > after all - do we *really* need two of them? 
> > 
> > Neri:
> > I must have missed something, but why George and not Fred?
> 
> No, you haven't missed something. It's a purely personal impression 
> of mine, that George is somehow less important, more vague as a 
> character, than Fred. Since JKR has everything planned ahead, 
> certainly the death of a Weasley, then it makes psychological sense 
> that she would, unconsciously even, invest less in him.
> 
> Naama

Funny--I always thought he was the nicer, more sensitive, twin,
slightly more responsible than Fred (he's the one who thinks they
shouldn't blackmail Ludo Bagman, though he ends up taking the letter
to Bagman from Fred's hand and mailing it himself, which I interpreted
as a gesture of solidarity with Fred against their meddling little
prefect brother. Also, it's George who (with Ginny) hugs their mother
when she arrives at Grimmauld Place, while Fred collapses in a chair.

If we must lose a twin, let it be Fred, who is a bit more of a bully
and probably the instigator in the mischief-making--but then poor
George would suffer the loss of his second self. He might even give up
mischief and entrepreneuring altogether out of grief and despair.
Better not to kill either twin and leave the other to mourn. If they
have to die, I think they'd prefer to die as they've lived--together,
just as Molly's boggart depicted them.

Carol, who thinks the twins will play an important role in VW2 and
survive at least till Book 7