The Weasleys (update on JKR's page)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115165


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Erin" <erinellii at y...> wrote:
> 
> Erin:
> It is not.  Ron tells Harry and Hermione he was three when Fred 
> changed his teddy bear into a spider.  Making the twins five... still 
> a remarkably young age for such a feat.
> 
> I wonder about that incident sometimes.  Ron makes it sound as though 
> Fred did it deliberately in revenge, with malice aforethought.  I 
> suppose it could have been wandless magic of the sort we've seen 
> small children display, but it seems awfully advanced for wandless 
> magic.  Bill would have been in second year at the time.  Perhaps it 
> was during a holiday and Fred somehow got ahold of Bill's wand?
> 

Finwitch:

Maybe. That might be the reason why Bill gave his old wand to one of
the twins, as he *knew* that at least Fred can make use of it.

Anyway, wand or not, Fred obviously has talent for transfiguration...

Finwitch