[HPforGrownups] Re: The twins? (was: Dumbledore's Fall)

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 170824

SSSusan:
> Erm... Pippin? I know I am only sporadically able to keep up with
> posting here, so this might be a long-ago expressed position/theory of
> yours and I've just missed it... but could you say what you're talking
> about here with the twins? Are you implying they're ESE! as well?
> What would their having gone to Arthur have potentially given away?

Pippin:
LOL! Pippin the ESE!Queen strikes again!....er, sorry, bit of pre-release
giddiness there. Note to self: must not giggle madly while staring at
screen :)

Debbie:
Hohoho!  Is someone requesting an ESE!Twins theory?  Susan, I am at your
service.

The twins are funny.  Their joke shop is funny, and the products are even
funnier.  But lurking in the back room of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes is a dark
secret.  Very dark.  They are already assisting the Dark side, and it's
going to get worse.

Where's the canon?

Remember the Peruvian Darkness Powder that the Twins carried in their shop.
Look whose hands it fell into.  Draco Malfoy's, that's right, Mr Junior
Death Eater himself.  And he used it to let a horde of experienced Death
Eaters into Hogwarts itself for the express purpose of killing Albus
Dumbledore.  That none of those Death Eaters actually killed Albus is beside
the point.  The powder Fred and George sold played an important part in the
chain of events that led to his death.

And that is only the beginning.  Recall that Ron vows to call his brothers
on the carpet for selling the powder to untrustworthy characters like
Draco.  Ron is right; there's a war on and some of their products would do
at least as well in the magical armory or cloak and dagger outfitter as in a
joke shop.  But when do the Twins ever listen to Ickle Ronniekins?

You can be sure that in the interim between HBP and DH Ron will deliver his
warning to the Twins.  However, he cannot use the only threat that might
have worked once upon a time -- telling Molly (recall how the Twins reacted
to Hermione's threat in OOP) -- they are simply too old for that, and Molly
knows, anyway.  So they will do what they've always done:  shoo the fly away
before he gets in the ointment and resume business as usual.

Moreover, Draco's little attempted invasion has introduced a small cadre of
DEs to the Twins' products, and if they're not really stupid, they know that
there is only a very small distinction between Weasley's Wizard Wheezes and
Weasley's Wizard Warheads.  As a result, Fred and George can expect
heightened customer interest in ordering some of their less savory products,
which they are certain to oblige.  (These are, after all, the Twins who once
brushed off blackmail concerns in attempting to recoup galleons they
believed to be theirs.)  One order will lead to another, and before you can
say Imperius!, Weasley's Wizard Warheads will have been appointed Official
Purveyor of Armatures to the Dark Lord Himself.  Trapped!

Fred and George, no dummies, will realize quickly enough where the customers
are coming from.  But like Regulus, they will also realize that to defy
Voldy openly is to ask for death, so they will need to keep filling
orders.  However, they will begin to fight back; they will become double
agents.  The Peruvian Darkness Powder will be allowed to get wet.  Fireworks
will boomerang.  And,

::big drum roll::

just before the final battle, an enterprising Fred will steal Voldemort's
wand and replace it with one of his own, so that when the Dark Lord finally
comes full circle and once again utters "Avada Kedavra" with his wand
pointed at Harry Potter,

::bigger drum roll::

the wand will turn into a rubber chicken.

Hey, it could happen!  (Though it's much more likely that they'd play a
trick like this on Percy.)

Debbie
speculating madly while she still can, with tongue planted firmly in cheek


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