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

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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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#2) George Dyes His Hair After The Battle Of Hogwarts

  From Redditor u/DravenFelius:

  After the Battle of Hogwarts, George dyes his hair outrageous colors. At first Molly is mad, but then she hears George whisper, "I kept thinking it was HIM (Fred) in the mirror..."
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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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  (#9) The Quidditch World Cup Was Fixed And Fred And George Knew About It

  From Redditor u/BoredOneNight:

  The result of the World Cup is so unusual and made even more strange by the fact that Fred and George were willing to bet all their savings on it. Most likely, they were just being very savvy with their years of experience playing and following the sport, but I can definitely envision a scenario where for whatever reason the Bulgarian team (or just Krum) are bribed or threatened into making sure that the match had that very specific outcome. Maybe Krum was bitter about playing on such a lousy team and wanted to at least make some money, maybe he needed funds to take care of his sick mother, maybe some elements of the Wizarding criminal underworld told him he could either catch the snitch or catch an Killing Curse. Fred and George are desperate for money at this point and have made contacts with some low level thieves and thugs, like Mundungus. They find out somehow and figure they may as well get in on the action.

  Quora user Priya Sridhar:

  Fred and George did time-traveling to hedge their bets at the World Cup— The twins would be the type to use some “illegal” magic that’s otherwise harmless to get the means to win a bet. Also, it was mysterious how they disappeared during the riots and were unconcerned about that part. How would they get their hands on a Time Turner? Well Hermione had one during the last year.

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