Random Fan Theories About The Weasley Twins That Are Wild Enough To Be True (15 items)

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  (#11) The Twins Just Assumed Scabbers' Real Name Was Peter

  From Redditor u/beccalynng:

  One topic of discussion I see pop up on this subreddit fairly often is Fred, George, and the marauders map. Many seem disgruntled over the assumption that they saw Peter Pettigrew in a dormitory with their little brother and little brother's friend and never asked about him or did anything to check who it may be when they saw them on the map but eventually learned all of that years Gryffindor boys' names.

  The first possibility:

  The marauders themselves don't appear on the map unless it's to another marauder. This seems to be the most likely, honestly, as Harry never notices Peter on the map or Sirius on the map, either, and it's only Remus who does eventually spot Peter and Sirius. The twins never mention anything about seeing an extra name in Percy's dormitory or Ron's dormitory, either.

  The second possibility:

  The twins could see Peter Pettigrew in a dormitory with Percy and/or Ron... if they looked. This theory holds that most likely the twins had no reason to check in on their fellow Gryffindors because their pranks were usually outside of Gryffindor tower.

  The third possibility:

  The twins did see Peter Pettigrew on the map while he was with Percy and/or Ron, so they went to investigate. It's not a large leap to assume that they would eventually learn the name of all the Gryffindor boys in the same year as their brothers, after all, or that they might ask after not hearing anything about this Peter. The only thing they could find to fit seemed to be Scabbers, the old family rat. What would be the first assumption they could make, here? That Scabbers is secretly an animagus in disguise? Obviously not.

  Magic is weird. Even to wizards/witches who have grown up with it their whole lives there's avenues of magic that they have no idea about. Thinking that some kind of magic could have been done to Scabbers to make him show up with a human name when the rat is already long-lived compared to other rats is probably not too unusual a thought. The twins wouldn't know Peter's name, after all. Even when Sirius escaped Azkaban and was in the news they might not recognize Peter's name or hear of it at all. If they went into Percy's or Ron's dormitory and counted off all the boys and only found a rat with a name they'd not immediately assume animagus or be distrustful, not after all those years of Scabbers being in the family.

  Which is the most likely?

  Personally, I think the first is the most likely, though I can easily buy into the third, too. The first seems to have some canon backup, in so much as no one outside of Remus seems to be able to spot Peter or Sirius on the map third year and even the twins might have glanced around for Sirius after hearing he entered Ron's dormitory and stood over him in his sleep.
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  (#1) George Never Celebrated His Birthday After Fred's Death Until His Son Was Born

  From Quora user Karthika Nair:

  George hated the fact that he and Fred would never be together on their birthdays anymore, so he didn't celebrate them after his death. But George's son was born on the exact same date as him and Fred (1st April). And he named him Fred II. Also started celebrating birthdays now that Fred was by his side.
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  (#4) Fred And George Gave Harry The Marauders Map Because They Saw Everything From The First Two Years

  From Redditor u/hansthellama:

  During the events of the Chamber of Secrets, Fred and George are in possession of the Marauder Map. This means that they must have been aware of their little sister sneaking about in mysterious places, always present when someone gets frozen. Not to mention sneaking into the Chamber of Secrets. But they didn't do anything. But wait, who says they didn't do anything? If I know Fred and George right, they spent that entire year working their butts off, trying to solve this. They just never told anyone, because just like Harry, Ron and Hermione, they weren't big on telling people about their adventures. No, they went behind the backs of their teachers and their fellow students, so that no one would stop them in doing good. They never made it into the Chamber of Secrets because they weren't parsletongues. And chances are they actually witnessed, via the Marauder Map, Harry and Ron saving their little sister. They saw Harry do what they weren't able to do.

  What’s more is that this was probably not the first time this happened. They probably saw the same thing the year before. They saw Harry, Ron and Hermione beat Voldemort the year before. And you could bet your butt they were trying to do the same, especially because they probably knew Professor Quirrel was hiding Voldemort on the back of his head, because the Marauder map shows you names. Sure, it’s possible that he turned up as Tom Riddle on the map, but that still must’ve told them something was off. The name Tom Riddle might even have been the thing that set them off course, so while Hermione was figuring out who Nicholas Flamel was, they were wasting their time on figuring out who Tom Riddle was. And they probably never found the answer.

  So after seeing Harry succeeding where they failed, two times in a row, they must’ve decided that Harry was more fit to own the map than they were. They gave him the map out of a sense of responsibility. They may not have known Harry had the unfair advantage of being a parsletongue and owning an invisibility cloak, but they saw that he could do things that they couldn’t.

  [Read the full theory here]
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  (#13) Fred Weasley Is Actually Alive

  From Redditor u/Lots42:

  TL;DR: Fred Weasley is alive, hiding as his brother, in order to fight crime.

  Fred's death was faked at the end of the Harry Potter saga. Possibly by the Weasleys themselves. Why? Because they knew they'd need a deep cover secret agent to root out any chance of Voldermort's people causing problems. And who else would be perfect but an agent who could hide in plain sight? Just have George step aside and Fred walk around saying he is George.
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  (#10) Fred And George Missed Peter On The Map Because The Names Of Animagi Don't Show When In Animal Form

  From Redditor u/anuragkadiyala:

  Ever since someone on Tumblr pointed out that it doesn't make any sense that Peter lives with Ron for three years, yet Fred and George fail to notice this on the Marauder's Map, I've been wondering how this can be explained. I finally figured it out! It's because the Map shows names of Animagi only when they're in human form, and, when they are in animal form, only if the Map's user know that they are Animagi. Think about it: nobody except Lupin, who has witnessed their transformations countless times, was able to see Peter and Sirius in the animal form on the Map. Snape only saw Lupin and Sirius in the Shrieking Shack (who were both in human form), but not Peter (who was a rat at the time). Harry also never saw Rita Skeeter on the Map when she was a beetle. I'm pretty sure the Marauders included this feature because should the Map ever be found by a teacher, their being Animagi would still remain a secret. This would've been more important to them than the Map being completely accurate. Lupin didn't even tell Dumbeldore Sirius could turn into an animal when he thought Harry's life was in danger. That's how much he wanted to keep it a secret, even over twelve years later.
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  (#5) Fred And George Swapped Places So Often That They Shared An Identity

  From Redditor u/Greak2mE:

  Throughout the books, Fred and George have poked fun at people who couldn’t tell them apart especially their mother. Now what if they are actually completely identical and have not got any physical features by which someone could tell them apart? So what they’re identical twins. And what do every pair of identical twins do as a practical joke: trade places. Fred and George are practical jokers of the highest order; who would do a practical joke above and beyond the scale of any normal joker. So on what scale do you think they would have done a twin swap?

  My thought is this: that they swapped so frequently and for so long that they had never really developed individual identities beyond the collective of Fred and George. Any role that one of them would have played individually was performed by both of them but simply under the one name. Identical twins living identical lives. (This might apply more for the books than the movies). You can’t say that one of them is Fred and the other George, since both of them are both Fred and George. If you were to split them they could also be called FR / Geo and Ed/ Rge.

  There was not a fixed person of Fred and a fixed person of George until George had his ear cut off: rather the twin that was wearing the name of George at that time had lost his ear. From that point on they had to live separate lives. I reckon that if they had not been so occupied during that time and if Fred had not died prematurely; either George would have gotten his ear back or Fred would have resorted to removing his own, in order for them to reclaim their intertwined identity. And when Fred did die, it was not just Fred that had gone. It was both of them, or them as they were together, and the half of the pair was trapped forever only ever being George. I think the death of half of Fred and George is the most tragic death of the Harry Potter series.

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