Twins and Duddley/Twins and Montague.

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 145583

Alla:
> 
> LOL, Ceridwen! Believe it or not, I expected somebody to make that 
> comparison and I have to disagree that Twins and Snape are equally 
> responsible , in fact I don't think it is even a close cut. But 
that is 
> of course strictly my opinion.

Ceridwen:
I'm surprised no one has made it before.  I thought I would be told 
to take it to the OT board.  *g*  As it is, this just might be my 
fourth post, so I'll be ironing my fingers into the night anyway.

Alla:
> Snape, IMO, could not expect anything else , but Voldemort going 
out to 
> hunt and kill the unnamed couple and their baby.
> 
> I absolutely don't see how Twins could have expected AND intended 
for 
> DE to come to school because they pushed Montague there. Again, JMO.

Ceridwen:
Degrees of what was done after the fact, and whether either party 
thought it through, is beside the point.  If the twins, or Harry, or 
etc., etc., are going to grow up to be grown-ups and skip the 
lingering angst, they have to learn to think ahead.  If the twins 
hadn't learned, by the age of seventeen, that their pranks could come 
back to bite them in some fashion, then they should have been able to 
figure it out.  Seventeen is adult in the WW.  Only about four years 
younger than I've seen it assumed that Snape was when he divulged the 
first half of that prophecy to LV.  At eighteen, as of HBP, I don't 
think the twins are thinking ahead *yet*.  Love potions, daydream 
kits, Peruvian darkness powder, and so on.  Their "crime" may be on a 
smaller scale, but not by much.  And on the most basic level, it's 
the same.  They didn't look before they leaped, they did instead of 
thinking, fools rush in, and so on.  And, since I think the UV would 
not have kicked in if the DEs hadn't told Snape that Draco couldn't 
do the deed ('if if seems he should fail...'), then I see them as the 
third step removed from the death of Dumbledore.  Intentional, or 
not.  As much as Snape is third step removed from the killing of the 
Potters, intentional or not.  Doesn't mean I don't like the twins, 
because sometimes they're funny.  I like funny.  But sometimes people 
we like do things that make us wonder if they took stupid pills that 
morning.  And sometimes, stupid turns into tragic.  *shrug*

(And, I wondered when someone would come back with 'it isn't the same 
thing'.  LOL!)

Ceridwen.