I've just been thinking (I know, that's dangerous) that even though like almost everybody claims that the twins are exactly alike (besides the loss of an ear and a loss of a twin :/) I think otherwise... I've always thought that George was the more moral of the twins. Just looking back at pranks they did alone-ish, and pranks they haven't done in front of Harry, George always seems more merciful.... For example, Fred was the one who transfigured Ron's teddy bear into a spider in the first place, sparking Ron's Arachnophobia. While George gave Ron the dud spell: "Sunshine, Daisies, Buttermellow, turn this stupid fat rat yellow." The worst possible result of this prank-spell is merely public embarrassment, which anyone can recover from with enough time, while Fred's spider prank's worst possible result is a 4 year old traumatized for the rest of his life. Sure, you must admit, there is a bit of an age difference between these two pranks, Fred is like 6 in the spider prank, while George is around 12 or 13, so maybe you're thinking, "They just matured a little, but only George had the opportunity to show it." Well if you thought this, my dear reader, you are wrong. In the fourth book, when the twins made a bet with Bagman, and he didn't pay up, Fred and George were found arguing in the owlery about whether to blackmail him or not. This is what they said, and I quote:
"'--That's blackmail, that is, we could get into a lot of trouble for that--'
'--we've tried being polite; it's time to play dirty, like him. He wouldn't like the Ministry of Magic knowing what he did--'
'I'm telling you, if you put that in writing, it's blackmail!'
'Yeah, and you won't be complaining if we get a nice fat payoff, will you?' The Owlery door banged open. Fred and George came over the threshold, then froze at the sight of Harry, Ron, and Hermione..." it later goes on to say, "'Ron didn't move. 'Who're you blackmailing?' he said. The grin vanished from Fred's face. Harry saw George half glance at Fred, before smiling at Ron. 'Don't be stupid, I was only joking,' he said easily. 'Didn't sound like that,' said Ron. Fred and George looked at each other. Then Fred said abruptly, 'I've told you before, Ron, keep your nose out if you like it the shape it is. Can't see why you would, but--' 'It's my business if you're blackmailing someone,' said Ron. 'George's right, you could end up in serious trouble for that.'
Based on this, we can see that George was the one that was saying blackmail was wrong, and even though he was the one that sent the owl in the end and claimed he was joking, I bet that was just to cover for Fred, because why else would he continue arguing against sending the letter if he was only joking, and there wasn't a better reason not to send it off other than blackmail? George also knows where to draw the line, when Arthur was attacked in Ootp, and Sirius forbids the Weasleys to go to Saint Mungo's until they at least alert Molly, so it doesn't cause awareness to Harry's visions, the argument goes like this:
"'Hang on, you can't go tearing off to St. Mungo's!' Said Sirius. 'Course we can go to St. Mungo's if want,' said Fred, with a mulish expression, 'he's our dad!'
'And how are you going to explain how you knew Arthur was attacked before the hospital even let his wife know?' 'What does that matter?' Said George, hotly. 'It matters because we don't want to draw attention to the fact that Harry is having visions of things that are happening hundreds of miles away!' said Sirius angrily. 'Have you any idea what the Ministry would make of that information?' Fred and George looked as though they could not care less what the Ministry made of anything. Ron was still white-faced and silent. Ginny said, 'Somebody else could have told us. . . We could have heard it somewhere other than Harry. . .' 'Like who?' said Sirius impatiently. 'Listen, your dad's been hurt while on duty for the Order and the circumstances are fishy enough without his children knowing about it seconds after it happened, you could seriously damage the Order's--' 'We don't care about the dumb Order!' shouted Fred. 'It's our dad dying we're talking about!' yelled George. 'Your father knew what he was getting into, and he won't thank you for messing things up for the Order!' said Sirius angrily in his turn. 'This is how it is-- this is why you're not in the Order-- you don't understand-- there are things worth dying for!' 'Easy for you to say, stuck here!' bellowed Fred. 'I don't see you risking your neck!' The little color remaining in Sirius's face drained from it. He looked for a moment as though he would quite like to hit Fred, but when he spoke it was in a voice of determined calm...."
Not only does this show what an awesome and totally supportive father figure Sirius would be, but it shows how savage Fred has the potential to be. This is probably the angriest either twin has been in the entire series, and Fred takes his anger to a nightmare level. You do NOT want to make Fred angry, he's like a ticking pipe bomb with X-ray vision, seeing your greatest insecurities. We all know how much Sirius wanted to help the Order, and how frustrated he was with being cooped up for so long, and Fred sees this and uses it to his advantage in arguments. George was merely trying to convince Sirius to let them go to St. Mungo's, and while Fred does the same thing, he tries showing dominance over Sirius by tearing him down. It also seems Fred and George's senses of humor are actually pretty different. You see, as I previously mentioned, Fred's pranks tend to do more harm than good most of the time, while George's are usually just innocent pranks that may be annoying, but pretty much harmless... Heck, George is even inclined to make fun of himself for the sake of laughter. Need I put any examples? Just look back at the "I'm holey!" Scene and you'll 100% agree with me. His ear was frickin' blown off his face with creepy voodoo magic and he jokes about it like 5 minutes afterwards... that's pretty lit, you must admit it...
And I'm not hating on Fred at all, Merlin knows after JKR killed him I needn't tarnish his memory... and please, I'm not saying that Fred is a good-for-nothing bully, because he isn't, it was mostly close family he was picking on and I'm pretty sure it was all intended to be playful, I'm just saying George is the quieter, more gentle twin, and if anybody states that they are carbon copies of each other, I'm going to die and then they are going to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and then when they attend my funeral, this post that you're reading right now will be read there in my memoriam, and then they'll die of shock and I will have gotten my revenge from the grave. Sorry, admin's weird today...
