[HPforGrownups] Re: Deaths in the Series

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 192171

> **
> 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.

> Shaun:
> 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. <snip>


Lynda:

You are right. I did character files on all the HP characters a few 
years back and Fred was the more dominant of the two. His page (by 
the end of the series) was a good 2 pages or more. George's was much 
shorter.