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Hoi,so i was think how do you think wich of the twins would react if they found out their so was a alcoholic amd also what do you think they think about drugs?(im just curious )

[Heyy thank you for the question!

I’ll start off by saying that I have no idea how drugs would work in the wizarding world. I giggle when people try to use “potion abuse” as a parallel. I mean it makes sense I guess? But I have trouble taking it seriously. So whatever the wizarding equivalent of “has smoked fair share of pot, tried the odd hard drug once or twice” is, that’s the twins’ relationship with “drugs”. #ITried

I’m going to address your other question in two parts because my boys’ personalities change quite a bit after the war.

Hogwarts

For George, it would be more or less the same thing as having an alcoholic friend, because his girlfriends are just cute friends he has sex with. So it’d be treading a fine line between being the cuddly emotionally supportive teddy bear he is and also trying to avoid any serious discussions, because that can lead to emotional dependence and (drumroll) COMMITMENT.

I don’t think Fred would give a hoot if he were dating an alcoholic. He doesn’t really understand the difference between frequent drinking (which he engages in) and psychological alcohol addiction. He also wouldn’t really care even if he did? >_> He doesn’t get involved in his partners’ personal lives much and he doesn’t involve them in his. If it got in his way, he’d ditch them, but otherwise he’d just ignore it.

Post-war

George is much more inclined to help people stick things out. Having been through a bunch of hard stuff he couldn’t avoid, he’s not as afraid of facing it. I do think he might be like... ‘let’s put the romantic aspect of this relationship on hold until you’re a bit better.’ Naturally, a lot would depend on who this hypothetical partner is and how things progressed.

Fred would still take a while to notice a problem and even longer to feel like he ought to do something about it. If/when he did, there’s still a good chance he’d bail. That said, he has his own severe physical and emotional problems by this point, so he might feel like it’d be unfair to put them through his without putting up with theirs, especially if it’s someone he’s known a while. In that case, he’d be torn between letting them make their own life choices (he’s very big on independence) and going JUST STOP IT FFS. Either way, he’s terrible at sympathy.

Of course, my boys being what they are, it’s likely they’d throw all these suppositions to the wind if allowed free rein in a thread, so the only way to know is to roleplay it with me. Nudgenudge.]

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@snufflesmajor replied to your post “Honestly, God Bless you for the commentary on that 'Not even their own...”

Wait, do people think Fred and George have a problem with being twins? Bc--and this is just my uneducated opinion--it seems as though they don't have a problem with being twins, but do have something of a problem with people being twats.

[More like people invent twin-problems that don’t exist for ~teh feelz~, e.g. “not even our family can tell us apart! D:” (never happens) and “George looks in the mirror of Erised and sees Fred and doesn’t realise it” (people know what their own faces look like, good lordy lou). Or, y’know, “George would never be able to produce a Patronus if Fred died because Fred is half of his soul” or w/e. -eyeroll- Romanticising the heckie out of a perfectly common condition of birth.

As for whether they like being twins, I find it basically impossible to separate canon from the versions of them that give running commentary in my head lol. So my twins quite enjoy being twins. They have their own identity struggles and such, especially George, but there are definite upsides as well, and neither of them’s ever sincerely wished he was born otherwise. Fred has a grand old time with it, so long as no one shows up with a twincest fetish.]

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snufflesmajor replied to your post “Honestly, God Bless you for the commentary on that 'Not even their own...”

Also this has nothing to do with anything, but George + Fred + Harry is a blessed trio of friends. Good boys, the lot of them. Just rly like that friendship

[ABSOLUTELY AGREED but

he isn’t their only friend nor their best so idk why this fandom wanks itself dry over him being the oNLy OnE wHO uNdERsTanDs Q^Q when they’re actually just like

>ey my man, you’re p dope, wanna have our most prized possession >sure thing bro. hey, I just stumbled across this small fortune, you want it or >well shit dude]

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[George normally: whatever we’re twins we’re basically the same age it doesn’t matter

George when Fred is wrong: lol silly little brother lacks my nine minutes’ greater wisdom

George when Fred is hurt: don’t speak to me or my actual tiny foetus son ever again]

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@leeriverofwordsjordan replied to your post “[I was thinking about how George’s entire worldview is very...”

That's interesting because I always think of Lee as being the one who reminds both of them there's a world beyond the two of them. Lee's social and while he'd never want to be IN politics. I do think he'd be all in on supporting people, like Kingsley or Hermione and their causes. So while my concept of Fred is different, my concept of how Lee interacts with Fred doesn't change all that much.

[No yeah, I completely agree tbh. The both of them are very insular and self-absorbed up until the war. They sold supplies to a personal enemy and suspected Death Eater, after all. And George’s primary justification for that defensive line was “it makes us money muahahaha.” I guess I mean it more in the sense that like… George’s natural instinct is to protect the people he cares about, while Fred feels the injustice of it more keenly. He still definitely wouldn’t have, say, gone on Potterwatch without Lee’s influence, but there’s a reason he goes without George.

Weirdly enough, though he has less of a moral compass in that he doesn’t really care if people’s feelings are hurt, he has more principles about things like authoritarianism and political oppression than George. He can look at ideas or philosophies and make judgements about them abstractly, even if he doesn’t always take into account how his own actions tie into them. George needs to have a tactile, personal relationship with something for it to mean anything. If it keeps out of his way, he doesn’t really care tbh.

Take the concept of blood purity. If we offer Fred and George the idea that purebloods are superior, Fred will reject it because he holds the belief that all people have equal value and rights. George will reject it because he personally knows and likes a lot of half-bloods and Muggleborns. So his hatred for Voldemort and such is more of a personal grudge over what he’s done to his friends, while Fred the devout anarchist also has an ideological axe to grind. It amounts to more or less the same thing, but George understands things in social terms while Fred operates on a more intellectual level. And I think it’s because Fred just doesn’t HAVE the strong emotional ties that George does.

Idk, does that make sense? Sorry for the wall of text; I get really excited about things like this xD ]