[HPforGrownups] Re: Deaths in the Series

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 192169

On 6/29/2012 6:43 AM, Bart Lidofsky wrote:

> I have known a number of
> identical twins in my life, and, no matter how friendly they were with
> each other, they were all sufficiently different in personality that
> there was never a real problem telling the difference. To the point
> where many of us don't even remember which one got killed. Essentially,
> from the point of view of the reader, they were a single character in
> two bodies. So, by killing one of them, JKR gets to kill a Weasley
> without actually killing one.
>
> I HOPE someone will prove me wrong, but I doubt it.

Actually, I looked at a few years ago and came to the conclusion that 
the two of them were more distinct than I realised. If you go through 
the books and look closely at the scenes where both of them are present, 
Fred is nearly always dominant over George. He instigates things and 
George backs him up.

I can't find my notes at that at the moment, but I've had a look around 
the web and this:

http://hpcompanion.com/essays/fredgeorge/

actually matches them fairly closely from what I can remember.

To me, this makes Fred's death particularly poignant.