Twenty Random Facts About Frederick Weasley.
I've always liked this meme, and it was a nice chance for me to learn more about the evil twin Fred. So, with no further ado, I present the results for your viewing pleasure...
1. Fred can’t fall asleep if he doesn’t know where George is. When they were babies, he used to fuss and cry until Molly put him in the same cot as George. Once there, he would steal all the blankets and pummel George repeatedly until George’s enraged bellows forced Molly to separate them again.
2. Fred occasionally wonders if he was born second, despite the fact that everyone refers to the twins alphabetically. He can’t believe that his mum doesn’t remember, but concedes that an eighteen-hour long labour might do funny things to one’s powers of recollection.
3. Fred is aware that he bullies Ron sometimes, mostly cause he adores Ginny, already has a best mate in George, and the others are all too old and/or Percy. He gains comfort by telling himself that he’s building Ron’s character, but sometimes he wishes Ron would buck up and be a bit less of a sidekick. It doesn’t really help their relationship that Harry has been pretty much adopted by Molly, and is far more impressive than Ron can ever hope to be.
4. Fred can’t help thinking that if Ron does fancy Granger, he should bloody well hurry up and do something about it before someone else does.
5. Fred can’t stand Marmite. George, however, adores it.
6. Fred used to be quite fond of Percy and his oddities, despite tormenting him on an almost-daily basis since he’d been old enough to crawl. His temper tantrums when Fred poured ink in his ear were amusing, and his irrational irritability when Fred charmed a pair of cymbals to clang repeatedly over his head while he slept was… strangely endearing.
Now, Percy’s a stranger. The way he betrayed their parents offended something intrinsic inside Fred, and he won’t ever accept him again. He doesn’t even hate him, anymore. Percy’s a nonentity; Fred is utterly indifferent to him.
7. Fred and George do not have an incestuous relationship. Not even a little bit.
(Although Fred did get George to pretend to be Angelina before the Yule Ball, as he was worried he might be a bit out of practise, romance-wise. That got a bit confusing.)
8. Fred suspects that Errol’s dopiness might be partially due to the fact that he and George used him for a series of ‘experiments’ when they were little. Errol bore all these good-naturedly, even the episode where the twins attempted to give him a bubble bath and then put him in one of Ginny’s nappies, but it seems to have exhausted him permanently.
9. Fred’s not that partial to chocolate - it strikes him as a fairly boring, blankety food. He much prefers things like sherbet, and hard boiled sweets, and liquorice laces. Things that you want to put in your mouth simply because they’re so shiny.
10. Fred’s Boggart is a woman who looks a bit like Molly and a bit like Ginny and a bit like every other woman he’s ever known, and she’s crying inconsolably. Just weeping, in a way that makes it evident that nothing Fred can say or do will make her stop.
11. Fred tells everyone it’s Gilderoy Lockhart in a pink spangly leotard, though, because that’s funnier.
12. Fred would very much like to live in a fantasy Hogwarts where everyone is staunchly heterosexual, except the girls. At the very least, they shouldn’t be gay around him, because it bloody freaks him out.
13. On some subconscious level, Fred knows about George and Bill. Some very suppressed, very subconscious level currently submerged under the murky waters of denial.
14. On his first ever trip to Zonko’s, Fred couldn’t do anything but stand and stare in the doorway, open-mouthed with awe. It felt like falling in love, like that odd feeling of rapture scarily religious people talked about. Years later, when he was just about to push off on his broom and leave Umbridge behind in the swamp, he saw that same expression on a first-year’s face. It was the best feeling in the world.
15. Fred’s favourite inventions are his fireworks, but he’s never completely happy with them. They always have to be BIGGER, LOUDER, BRIGHTER. The beta version of the Deflagration Deluxe box nearly gave even George a heart attack, who suggested that maybe they should tone down a product that could so easily be confused with an atomic bomb.
16. Fred doesn’t think he’s overprotective of Ginny in the slightest, and would be deeply shocked if anyone suggested that this was the case.
17. Fred can’t read George’s mind, contrary to popular belief, and he doesn’t feel George’s pain - which is lucky, as he’s usually the cause of it - but they do have a spookily identical injury history. When they were serving separate detentions in first year, George in the Forbidden Forest and Fred in the Trophy Room, George fell out of a tree from which he was collecting Gringle eggs, and Fred’s stepladder tipped over when he reached out too far to polish a plaque. They were both rushed to the hospital wing, noses broken in exactly the same place.
18. The prospect of living fast and dying young doesn’t really appeal to Fred. He would much prefer to live fast, and die old, although it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
19. Fred has a tendency to think that sensitivity is a sign of weakness - none of his friends have ever seen him cry. He hates offloading his emotions on his friends and family, but unfortunately he’s not very good at hiding them.
20. Fred and George have equally large hearts.
ETO ever snogging George. 17/9/06
1. Fred can’t fall asleep if he doesn’t know where George is. When they were babies, he used to fuss and cry until Molly put him in the same cot as George. Once there, he would steal all the blankets and pummel George repeatedly until George’s enraged bellows forced Molly to separate them again.
2. Fred occasionally wonders if he was born second, despite the fact that everyone refers to the twins alphabetically. He can’t believe that his mum doesn’t remember, but concedes that an eighteen-hour long labour might do funny things to one’s powers of recollection.
3. Fred is aware that he bullies Ron sometimes, mostly cause he adores Ginny, already has a best mate in George, and the others are all too old and/or Percy. He gains comfort by telling himself that he’s building Ron’s character, but sometimes he wishes Ron would buck up and be a bit less of a sidekick. It doesn’t really help their relationship that Harry has been pretty much adopted by Molly, and is far more impressive than Ron can ever hope to be.
4. Fred can’t help thinking that if Ron does fancy Granger, he should bloody well hurry up and do something about it before someone else does.
5. Fred can’t stand Marmite. George, however, adores it.
6. Fred used to be quite fond of Percy and his oddities, despite tormenting him on an almost-daily basis since he’d been old enough to crawl. His temper tantrums when Fred poured ink in his ear were amusing, and his irrational irritability when Fred charmed a pair of cymbals to clang repeatedly over his head while he slept was… strangely endearing.
Now, Percy’s a stranger. The way he betrayed their parents offended something intrinsic inside Fred, and he won’t ever accept him again. He doesn’t even hate him, anymore. Percy’s a nonentity; Fred is utterly indifferent to him.
7. Fred and George do not have an incestuous relationship. Not even a little bit.
(Although Fred did get George to pretend to be Angelina before the Yule Ball, as he was worried he might be a bit out of practise, romance-wise. That got a bit confusing.)
8. Fred suspects that Errol’s dopiness might be partially due to the fact that he and George used him for a series of ‘experiments’ when they were little. Errol bore all these good-naturedly, even the episode where the twins attempted to give him a bubble bath and then put him in one of Ginny’s nappies, but it seems to have exhausted him permanently.
9. Fred’s not that partial to chocolate - it strikes him as a fairly boring, blankety food. He much prefers things like sherbet, and hard boiled sweets, and liquorice laces. Things that you want to put in your mouth simply because they’re so shiny.
10. Fred’s Boggart is a woman who looks a bit like Molly and a bit like Ginny and a bit like every other woman he’s ever known, and she’s crying inconsolably. Just weeping, in a way that makes it evident that nothing Fred can say or do will make her stop.
11. Fred tells everyone it’s Gilderoy Lockhart in a pink spangly leotard, though, because that’s funnier.
12. Fred would very much like to live in a fantasy Hogwarts where everyone is staunchly heterosexual, except the girls. At the very least, they shouldn’t be gay around him, because it bloody freaks him out.
13. On some subconscious level, Fred knows about George and Bill. Some very suppressed, very subconscious level currently submerged under the murky waters of denial.
14. On his first ever trip to Zonko’s, Fred couldn’t do anything but stand and stare in the doorway, open-mouthed with awe. It felt like falling in love, like that odd feeling of rapture scarily religious people talked about. Years later, when he was just about to push off on his broom and leave Umbridge behind in the swamp, he saw that same expression on a first-year’s face. It was the best feeling in the world.
15. Fred’s favourite inventions are his fireworks, but he’s never completely happy with them. They always have to be BIGGER, LOUDER, BRIGHTER. The beta version of the Deflagration Deluxe box nearly gave even George a heart attack, who suggested that maybe they should tone down a product that could so easily be confused with an atomic bomb.
16. Fred doesn’t think he’s overprotective of Ginny in the slightest, and would be deeply shocked if anyone suggested that this was the case.
17. Fred can’t read George’s mind, contrary to popular belief, and he doesn’t feel George’s pain - which is lucky, as he’s usually the cause of it - but they do have a spookily identical injury history. When they were serving separate detentions in first year, George in the Forbidden Forest and Fred in the Trophy Room, George fell out of a tree from which he was collecting Gringle eggs, and Fred’s stepladder tipped over when he reached out too far to polish a plaque. They were both rushed to the hospital wing, noses broken in exactly the same place.
18. The prospect of living fast and dying young doesn’t really appeal to Fred. He would much prefer to live fast, and die old, although it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
19. Fred has a tendency to think that sensitivity is a sign of weakness - none of his friends have ever seen him cry. He hates offloading his emotions on his friends and family, but unfortunately he’s not very good at hiding them.
20. Fred and George have equally large hearts.
ETO ever snogging George. 17/9/06