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

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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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  (#6) Fred And George Don't See Pettigrew On The Map Because Of A 'Hide-The-Marauders' Spell

  From Redditor u/potter365:

  It has ALWAYS bothered me that there is no clear explanation for how Fred, George, and Harry could have possibly overlooked the fact that Peter Pettigrew literally slept with Ron every single night and only Lupin catches it much later. Searching message boards I finally found an answer that helps me sleep at night.

  “This is purely conjecture, but it's entirely possible that the Marauders placed some extra protection on the Map in case it were to fall into the wrong hands -- a "hide-the-Marauders" function, if you will. If you think about it, this makes sense -- for, as we know, it did fall into the wrong hands, and they wouldn't want anyone to know about their monthly excursions or any of their other Invisibility Cloak adventures. Moreover, they probably only would have wanted it to be a temporary function, so that they might be able to find each other if necessary.

  So let's say that there was this hide-the-Marauders function, and it was enabled when Filch confiscated it. Fast forward to Fred and George discovering it. They don't notice anything wrong with it, of course, because none of the Marauders are supposed to be at Hogwarts...until the year in which Lupin arrives. Still, it's clear they don't use the Map much anymore by this point -- they've outgrown it, and they're even passing it on to Harry. Nobody notices that the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is never on the Map -- and why would they? Both Harry and the Weasley twins probably like Lupin, so he's not somebody they'd be watching out for; plus, it's probably a lot harder to notice someone's absence from the Map than someone's presence on it (especially, regarding the case in point, if that someone shares a common room with you).

  Then Lupin confiscates the Map, and what does he do with it? He's smart -- he uses it to watch out for Harry, as we know he did on the day of Buckbeak's execution; he must also want to use it to watch out for Sirius Black, who has already managed to break into Hogwarts once. So he disables the hide-the-Marauders function, but by now Pettigrew (as Scabbers) is hiding out at Hagrid's out of fear, and no longer living in the Gryffindor Common Room. Because Lupin isn't focusing on Hagrid's hut -- why would he? -- he doesn't notice his old school friend until one night, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione sneak out to see Hagrid.
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  (#8) The Twins Switched Places Before 'Half-Blood Prince'

  From Redditor u/footstepsfading:

  TL;DR: They're the same person anyway, but it wouldn't surprise me.

  I've reread the chapter. I definitely think it's entirely possible. They even make their trademark "I'm not George, I'm Fred!" joke when Mad-Eye is assigning who flies in which pairs in the Dursley kitchen. They even go back on the joke a moment later, just pissing him off more. When the twin pretending to be Fred comes in to see George, he is speechless for the first time in Harry's memory. Mrs. Weasley asks "How do you feel, Georgie?" while the earless twin wakes up. So he's prompted to be still George, and obviously conscious enough to make (or continue) jokes.

  I think that the twins could have kept up the joke because they liked knowing that their own mother couldn't tell them apart. The permanent evidence locking one into an identity would have only been amusing to them if they were locked into the wrong one. Top of page 75 in the hardcover edition:

  "Ah well," said George, grinning at his ear-soaked mother. "You'll be able to tell us apart now, anyway, Mum."

  They lost their favorite joke, but at the bottom of page 78 the rest of the characters walk back into the Burrow to find the twins laughing together after being alone in the room. This is possibly where they agreed that it didn't truly matter which one of them lost the ear. They co-own the shop.

  In summery: So when they lost the ear, they thought it would be their own private joke to keep the wrong identities so that their mother still couldn't tell them apart. Then, when Fred (really George) died, George (really Fred) felt too guilty to tell his mother the truth, plus, what did it really matter if she mourned for the wrong son? It would be needlessly confusing. But telling Angelina the truth would make her feel better that her date to the Yule Ball was still around. Then they got married and had kids. I bet the twin and his wife took that secret to their graves.
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  (#12) George Weasley Is Willy Wonka

  From Redditor u/Pious_Mage:

  Willy Wonka's chocolate shop clearly has a magical quality to it with the never melting ice cream, everlasting gobstoppers and so on. Now who is someone who can do magic and is known to be able to charm and create great magical sweets? Why George Weasely of course. With his Skiving snackboxes and such. Do you know what else George loves? Pranks. We already see him prank a fat kid (Dudley) with sweets (Ton Tongue Toffee) and he's smart enough to know how to lure muggles into traps. Augustus would be easy, just makes the chocolate river easy to fall into, and charm it to be tastier than the average chocalats. Blowing Violet up like a blueberry is just the kinda thing George would find hilarious. Veruka, well place a few charms om the squirrels, there under your command and easy does it. Mike TV is a simple Reducto curse. Charlie, well they already said in POA that there was candies that could levitate you off the ground. But as much as he could obliviate Charlie and Grandpa Joe, there cunning reminded him of Fred and led him to a soft spot for the boy. The oompaloompa's are simply house elves dressed up and taught to sing.

  My theory is George Weasely after the Deathly Hallows continued his joke shop. Unfortunately though, stricken by grief, he didn't wanna run it anymore without Fred. So when a Muggle accidentally discovers one of there chocolates and goes nuts for it, he see's an entirely new market to go into. Unwilling to bear the name Weasely anymore without his brother and not wanting to draw attention to his family, he changes his appareance and goes by the name Willy Wonka. Here he creates all sorts of crazy magical sweets amd goods, and places memory charms on those who figure out about magic. However, some spies leak the crazy potion recipes and other things and he gets paranoid and shuts himself off, not wanting to break the statute of secrecy. There he continued making new sweets and chocalates, sneaking out using disillusionment charms, invisibility cloaks and apparating hence why no one ever saw him leave. Until finally the events of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory happens.
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  (#14) Fred And George Thought Ron Was Having A Secret Gay Affair

  From Redditor u/starlightsymphonies:

  TLDR: For some reason I feel like Fred and George would have assumed he was sleeping with some male student, and would have never outed him if that were the case, so that’s why they never said anything about it.

  I mean honestly, if they didn’t know who Pettigrew was by name (did they??), and they saw him in Ron’s bedroom every night, I kind of feel like Fred and George are nice enough that they wouldn’t call him out on it. Sure, they give him sh*t about everything else, but it was the late '90s. If they had gone with the logical assumption here, and had been going around telling people that Ron was sleeping with someone named Peter (who they’d probably assume was just another student), it would absolutely not have ended well for Ron. They’ll tease him about anything low-impact, sure, but I doubt they’d out their baby brother if it would put him in stress or danger. Fred and George are jokesters at heart, and I’m sure they’ve crossed the line a bit a few times, but they’d never do anything genuinely mean-spirited, especially to family.
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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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