Harry Potter Poster #74 FRAMED Fred and George Weasley James and Oliver Phelps

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Call it karma, but when James and Oliver Phelps were cast in the Harry Potter films as the red-headed twin wizard brothers of the equally flame-haired Ron Weasley, James knew that he was in for a spot of payback. ‘I used to walk to school with a boy called Andrew who had bright red hair,’ he says, ‘I used to tease him constantly about it. Then we got cast as the Weasley twins and had to dye our hair red for the next ten years. All the years of joking at Andrew’s expense just came back and slapped me in the face.’ Fred Weasley and George Weasley are the troublemaking twins of the Weasley family. The two often work together making pranks and are addressed as a single unit as opposed to two individual people. They are so similar that even their mother often has a difficult time telling the two apart. Born on April Fools’ Day, they first appear in Philosopher’s Stone as third-years and are the school clowns and prime troublemakers, who are more interested in inventing new pranks than studying. Despite their poor results in their O.W.L. exams, the twins are intelligent and proficient wizards capable of sophisticated magic. In addition, they served as Beaters for the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

The pair often come to Harry’s assistance throughout the series; in Chamber of Secrets, they and Ron help him escape his house arrest from Privet Drive in a flying Muggle car, and give Harry the Marauder’s Map during his third year which was created by Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew while they were in Hogwarts. In Goblet of Fire, they begin selling novelties under the name “Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes”, first testing their merchandise on impressionable first-years, and once on Dudley Dursley at the beginning of the book. Though their mother wants them to work for the Ministry of Magic, the twins aspire to own a joke shop, and Harry provides their start-up capital by donating his winnings from the Triwizard Tournament. In Order of the Phoenix, the twins, like Harry Potter, are permanently banned from Quidditch after a postmatch brawl with Malfoy, and later eschew the remainder of their seventh year by taking part in a student uprising against Umbridge, during which they set off a mass of fireworks and conjure up a Portable Swamp in a corridor before abandoning their education; a small amount of the swamp is later kept and cordoned off by Filius Flitwick as a tribute. In Half-Blood Prince, Fred and George continue to run their joke shop despite the unrest in Diagon Alley.

In Deathly Hallows, the twins are Order of the Phoenix members and serve as two of Harry’s six decoys when he escapes Privet Drive. George’s ear is permanently severed by a stray Sectumsempra curse from Severus Snape, who was actually aiming at a Death Eater. Meanwhile, the twins are forced to abandon their shop due to the Death Eater-helmed Ministry of Magic’s surveillance of the Weasley family, and instead operate another owl-order business out of their Great-Aunt Muriel’s house. During this time, one of the twins, speculated to be Fred, shows up in the pirate radio station Potterwatch as “Rapier”. The twins return to participate in the Battle of Hogwarts, during which Fred and Percy Weasley defeat Pius Thicknesse and an unidentified Death Eater, but moments later, Fred is killed in an explosion caused by Augustus Rookwood. Rowling said in an MSNBC interview that she always knew Fred would be the twin who would die, though she could not specify a particular reason. She revealed in a web chat after the release of Deathly Hallows that George never fully got over Fred’s death, but succeeded in turning Weasleys’ Wizarding Wheezes into a “money spinner” with Ron, who eventually quit to become an Auror. Rowling also revealed that, by the time of the epilogue of Deathly Hallows, George is married to Angelina Johnson and has two children, Fred and Roxanne.

James and Oliver Phelps played Fred and George respectively in the Harry Potter film series.

James Andrew Eric Phelps and Oliver Martyn John Phelps (born 25 February 1986) are identical twin British actors, best known for playing identical twins, Fred and George Weasley, respectively, in the Harry Potter film series.

In 2000, at age 14, the twins attended an open audition, despite having no previous acting experience, and, after about six auditions, were cast as Fred and George Weasley in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. They went on to portray their characters in all of the subsequent Harry Potter films.

James and Oliver are close with several of the Harry Potter cast members, including Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Daniel Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. They attended Radcliffe’s Broadway performances, and often meet up with Grint, Felton and Lewis to play golf.

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