Fabian & Gideon Prewett

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No: HPFGUIDX 187739

> Sandie:
> The twin theory sounds plausible, but I've only read the books once (all seven this summer after HBP the movie was released), and I can't remember there being too, too much discussion about the Prewett brothers, other than the conversation Moody has with Harry pointing out the members of the original Order in OotP in a photo and later in DH when Molly gives Harry his 17th-birthday "coming of age" watch. 
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> What do those of who are more immersed in the books think? 

Zara:
Hi Sandie! It is not known whether the Prewett broithers were twins or not. They are only mentioned a couple of times, in OotP (in the early going at 12 GP, where their story may put Molly's Boggart in the proper context for us readers) and in DH (the watch Molly gives Harry on his birthday belonged to her brother Fabian).

I consider it a reasonable supposition that we were supposed to think Molly named her sons after her two beothers, but this is also not confirmed. That Rowling chose these names knowing what she planned, seems likely to me, I see a lot of places in the series where there are tiny little clues of things that are to come, once you start looking.