[HPforGrownups] Re: Fred & George - Evil?

[brossiter at dc.rr.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 132651

brossiter initially wrote:

> > > Fred and George have been morally ambiguous during
> > the entire 
> > series.

then Nuri Wrote:

> > I believe you are wrong here. I don't think they're
> > morally 
> > ambiguous. They're heavy pranksters, that's true,
> > but they know what 
> > lines not to cross.

brossiter responds:

That may very well be true, and they may well not be evil.  And they may
not have had loads of time to rummage through the drawer, picking and
choosing among the various tidbits that had been collected by Filch and
his predecessors through the years. 

But that still doesn't explain why, even in such a short amount of time,
why they picked out what must have appeared as a blank parchment.  Even
if they thought it odd that bare parchment would be considered
"dangerous," there's no explanation as to how they worked out how to use
it ("I solemnly swear...")  Scabbers!Peter is the most likely source for
both bits of information, and there's simply no way the twins could have
gotten information out of the rat unless they were (or became) aware of
the rat's true nature.

Maybe it wasn't out of evil-ness; maybe Peter knew the twins were
hellians who'd get a kick out of the map.  But even THAT means that the
twins would have known who & what Scabbers really was long before the
events of PoA, and never once breathed a word of it.  

Britt (who smells a rat, even if it isn't one or both of the twins...)