The Twins

[kchuplis]

No: HPFGUIDX 145072

Geoff Bannister wrote:
> 
> When they indulge in ridicule, whether it is deserved or not, it is 
> often not intended to be funny (except to them perhaps) but to be 
> demeaning or hurtful. I know that it is tradition for brothers to 
be 
> nasty to each other but they really set out to embarrass both Ron 
and 
> Percy as often and as deeply as they can and, also, they are plain 
> rude to their mother when we first see them at the station in PS.
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> Maybe at this point in time, we can shrug off their antics as 
teenage 
> high spirits but I do can see them letting things get way out of 
hand 
> at a more serious level if they do not learn to self-regulate what 
> they are doing in these areas.
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To me, that is the nature of the born practical joker. I don't really 
find it funny either but the practical joker sure does. I know 
someone who can keep a practical joke going for weeks. To them it's 
hysterical. 

I guess my point was that Fred and George have been pointed out in 
very subtle ways as really being extraordinary (Flitwick even going 
so far as to keep part of the swamp in OoTP). They also learned a 
lesson about who they sell their stuff to in HBP. I wouldn't be 
surprised if they came up with some important bits of magic just for 
Harry and his gang (ala "Q" in Bond).

kchuplis