Twins and Death in Deathly Hallows
Aug. 6th, 2007 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tj_roweI think we all knew that either Fred or George would bite it, because you just can't have twins going through a fictional war and both making it out alive. I didn't, however, expect the same of 'Crabbe and Goyle' as I did for 'Fred and George', but it obeys the same principle.
It's symbolic of the part of yourself that dies when you go through something like that, I think. Twins are often written as 'two halves of the same person', and the death of one's twin being like 'losing a part of oneself', so the reverse - losing a part of oneself being symbolised by the death of a twin - is obvious when you think about it.
It's symbolic of the part of yourself that dies when you go through something like that, I think. Twins are often written as 'two halves of the same person', and the death of one's twin being like 'losing a part of oneself', so the reverse - losing a part of oneself being symbolised by the death of a twin - is obvious when you think about it.
