Twins and Duddley

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 145523

> BAW:
> > Dudley had made a career of tormenting his younger, smaller,
> > weaker cousin, and had made a habit of eating anything that
> > didn't eat him first.
> 
> Magpie:
> 
> Perhaps the Robinsons had a similar career.  I don't know anything 
about 
> them.  Regardless I've already acknowledged about a dozen times 
that I know 
> who Dudley is and the type of person he is, and that still doesn't 
make the 
> twins robots who couldn't help but do what they did, nor does it 
make them 
> saints acting out of altruism.  Just as, if Dudley were to suddenly 
gain 
> magical powers and he showed up at the Weasleys and did something 
to them to 
> get back at the twins for pranking him, I would consider him acting 
on his 
> own volition.


Alla:

I may have missed something, even though I followed the thread for 
the most part. I am wondering who said that Twins cannot help what 
they did? IMO they definitely knew what they were doing, namely 
punishing Dudley AND testing their products

But I completely disagree that they did not have good intentions 
here. Punishing the tormentor of your friend is IMO good intention, 
so yeah, I think they had altruistic reasons too,among others of 
course.

I consider Twins to be in many instances the tool which JKR uses to 
punish bad guys. I would probably evaluated their behaviours a bit 
differently, if they were less sketchy characters, as it stands now, 
every time Twins acted, they were smacking the guys who needed to be 
smacked IMO.

Again, I may have evaluated their behaviours a bit differently in RL, 
but in the books, I love them.

Here is again a great example of JKR appeasing the readers who think 
that Twins behaviour crosses the line, IMO. I think that she is going 
to close  the issue of Twins behaviour by showing that they learned 
their lesson with selling powder to the wrong hands.

Do I think Twins will become DE? Not a chance in the world, if you 
ask me. IMO of course.


Alla