| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
| The Weasley Twins | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair Colour | Red |
| Eye Colour | Unknown |
| House | Gryffindor |
| Blood Purity | Pure-blood |
| Loyalty | Dumbledore's Army |
Fred and George are the school clowns, more interested in making new jokes than their studies. It is, therefore, not surprising that their birthday is April 1st. They are the beaters on the Gryffindor QuidditchQuidditch is a fictional airborne ballgame (played on broomsticks), a sort of magical variant of football or polo, devised by J. Rowling in the Harry Potter series of children's books. Quidditch is very popular in the fictional world of Harry Potter. team. Much to their mother's disappointment, they are the only of her sons who weren't made prefectThe word prefect can refer to any of a number of types of official, including: in Latin, praefectus a high-ranking military or civil official in the Roman Empire; the title now attaches to the heads of some departments of the Roman Curia, who are traditios. Their appearances and personalities are so indistinguishible that they can fool even their mother, who once sent them sweaters monogrammed with "G" and "F". The twins switched sweaters and called themselves "Gred" and "Forge".
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in the Harry Potter series by J. Published in 2000, the release of this book had been surrounded by more hype than any other children's book in recent times outdone only by its successor, Harry Potter, Fred and George begin selling their own jokes by mail order, under the name "Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes". They help Harry to get some revenge against his first cousin Dudley Dursley by "accidentally" dropping several Ton Tongue Toffees—Dudley, a glutton on a forced diet, soon has a foot-long tongue protruding from his mouth; at the Quidditch World Cup they impress Ludo Bagman, Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports at the Ministry of MagicRowling's Harry Potter series of novels, the Ministry of Magic is the governing body of the magical community of Britain, succeeding the earlier Wizards' Council . It is implied that other countries have their own Ministries of Magic. The job of the Minis with their fake wands.
Despite their mother's wish that they should follow their father in working at the Ministry of Magic, their ambition in life is to run their own joke shop. Harry (who had inherited more than enough money for his needs) makes this possible by giving them his winnings from the Triwizard TournamentThe Triwizard Tournament is a fictional tournament featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''. This tournament was established in the late thirteenth to early fourteenth century as a friendly competetion between the three most prestigious magical s. Apparently they now have one in Diagon Alley that they started working at after they escaped from Umbridge; there is some evidence that the joke shop was already in the works, and Umbridge's treatment of them just provided a good reason to drop out of school.
The pair provide Harry with useful assistance throughout the series; in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban they give him the Marauder's Map, and in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix they provide distractions so that Harry can use the Floo system unmonitored in Dolores Umbridges' office. They were members of Dumbledore's Army, a group started by Harry, Hermione and Ron to provide the practical instruction in Defence Against the Dark Arts, which Dolores Umbridge had removed from that course's curriculum. Later in the year, their practical jokes were used by them and others to harass Umbridge, eventually leading to their leaving Hogwarts under threat of whipping. After leaving, they helped against her by offering discounted jokes to students who wanted to continue annoying Umbridge.
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