DH reread CH 13-14

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 186499


> Alla:
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> Now, knowing that this youth is Grindelwald, it seems to me that by comparing his air of trickery with Fred and George's air of trickery, I think this is one of those moments when JKR is saying that their pranks are not always necessarily good things?

Pippin:
There are lots of places where someone notices that Fred and George's pranks are not always good things. It does not help Ginny when they are jumping out at her to scare her. Ron says that some of the things they do are dangerous, and we see some people get hurt.  Ron says that he's going to talk to them about who they sell their stuff to. And of course they get royally chewed out after the Ton-tongue toffee thing. We can discuss whether some of these things were good, but nobody thinks they were all good.

Nobody wants them to stop being pranksters (except Percy, but he's wrong) but like everyone else they don't always use their power responsibly. However, they do, as they show in several places, recognize that they have a duty to use their power responsibly, if only to stay out of trouble. Grindelwald, if he ever came to that realization, came to it very late in life.

Pippin