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[hickengruendler]

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> > Ceridwen:
> > So, the twins are the agents of Karma? 

Lupinlore:
> 
> Sure, why not?  Karma has many agents, and often they are quite 
> unlikely.  The whole Dudley-tongue episode was hilarious Karmic 
> justice, pure and simple.
> 

Hickengruendler:

I am curious, do you think Fenrir Greyback was one of those unlikely 
agents of Karma as well? Because, no matter how much JKR may like the 
Twins, (and I have no doubt, that she likes them very much), it was 
her, who wrote the scene with the villains using (among other things) 
the twins pranks and products to invade Hogwarts, leading to Bill's 
difiguration by Greyback. And since she even has Ron comment on it in 
the last chapter, I hardly think it was a coincidence. It was the 
Twins' shoving of Montague into the Vanishing Cabinet, that set a 
chain into motion, which led to the Death Eater attack.

I do agree with you that she has fun torturung the Dursleys, just as 
she self-admittingly has fun torturing Umbridge. And I also agree 
that the scene is written as comic relief. But the one does not 
exclude the other. She can use the Twins in a way to use her 
authorial sadism on unpleasant characters and still not condone what 
they were doing.

Hickengruendler, who was always bothered by the Vanishing Cabinet 
scene, simply because all Montague, Imperial Squad or not, wanted to 
do was drawing pint