More fuel for the fire regarding Fred and George

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 112877

sad1199 wrote:
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> Also, the thread about Time-Turning Fred and George knowing how the 
> Quidditch match would end. I think they just took a lucky guess 
> because of their loyalty to the Irish team and their admiration for 
> Krum combined. IF they had turned time wouldn't they have known 
> about the Death Mark in advance? I know it happened later but Fred 
> and George seem the like the type to stay and party for a while...

Carol responds:
I agree that there's no need for time-turning to account for the
twins' bet, and they do appear to have more than their share of good
luck. But they're also extremely intelligent, and if you think about
it, they arrived at a logical conclusion: The best *team* would win
but the best *seeker* would get the snitch. (It's an outcome I'd like
to see more often rather than having the other players knocking
themselves out for hours only to have one seeker or the other taking
away all their glory. Maybe catching the snitch should be worth fifty
points but not a hundred and fifty.) Anyway, the twins probably
discussed all probable outcomes and came up with one that was
unorthodox but brilliantly logical. And since, according to Hermione,
logic is a rare quality in wizards, it's not surprising that few or no
other wizards placed the same bet or that Bagman (whose grasp of logic
appears to match Goyle's) offered them such good odds. (Too bad he
paid in Leprechaun gold.)

Carol, who hopes we've seen the last of the time turner