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Brace your self: George Weasley might have grown as much as be the King of Chocolate, Willy Wonka himself.
The thought of those two magical universes converging not directly is sufficient to make our 10-year-old hearts swoon (and our 20-, 30-, and 40-year-old hearts, too)! Though I’m in the end a Harry Potter fan, it was Roald Dahl’s books, particularly Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that honed my love for magical, imaginative storylines. If you are a fan of each as effectively, it is exhausting to not discover similarities within the numerous tales. Of all of the fan fiction and fan theories on the market, this one is so lighthearted and offers an inkling of hope for George Weasley, whom we all know suffered one of many best losses of all of them when his twin brother Fred died on the Battle of Hogwarts.
Consider: George drops out of Hogwarts with Fred (then below the horrible management of Dolores Umbridge) to take their skills elsewhere. Along with jokes, cleverness, and pranks, the 2 have a knack for enterprise. Weasley’s Wizarding Wheezes sells magical variations of joke candies, prank merchandise, and different objects. Some merchandise, just like the Puking Pastille, appear to be one thing that may very well be present in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory alongside Violet Beauregarde’s bubble gum or Mike Teavee’s chocolate tv. Different, but additionally the identical.
Furthermore, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is written by means of the eyes of little Charlie Bucket; along with his rags-to-riches background, he reminds us of Harry. He can be the identical age as Harry is within the first e-book: 11. Charlie is a Muggle, although, so naturally, somebody as loony as Willy Wonka would come throughout as odd. But what are his oddities precisely?
For starters, Willy is a little bit of a recluse, extraordinarily secretive, and relentlessly offbeat in social deliveries. Perhaps these oddities have been simply the pure observations {that a} Muggle would have about an individual who grew up within the Wizarding world. After all, the variations between Muggles and magic folks would convey every social gathering to consider that the opposite is peculiar. And although Willy Wonka appears to be considerably of an exaggerated character, maybe George felt he wanted to play an element in some methods. (Also with characters like Xenophilius Lovegood or Mad-Eye Moody, who’s to say who’s bizarre on this probably merged universe of magic?)
Playing the a part of Willy Wonka might have been a reduction to George. Plenty of actors and comedians have mentioned that there’s a nice liberation in diving into the minds and lives of one other individual by means of performing – and that it might probably even assist with grief. Perhaps George makes use of his new persona as a solution to cope with the ache of tragically shedding his brother. Or maybe George merely turned that kooky. J.Ok. Rowling even mentioned that she believed George would never have fully been in the same after suffering a loss like Fred’s.
Additionally, the Oompa Loompas have a backstory which may very well be a fabricated little bit of folklore to cover the truth that they’re truly home elves, who ,as we all know, like to be of service to their grasp. We can assume they might be granted a beneficiant compensation (and never solely by the way in which of chocolate) contemplating George’s sister-in-law Hermione Granger grows up to work in the Ministry’s office of law enforcement and was recognized at Hogwarts to advocate for the welfare of home elves.
Another factor to think about is the truth that George, as Willy, could be giving up his enterprise to a Muggle, Charlie. Giving a Muggle a little bit of the magic by making one the inheritor to the manufacturing facility could be George’s homage to his father, Arthur Weasley, who was at all times fascinated by Muggles and their creativity and innovations for getting by means of life with out magic.
And let’s not deny the opposite attributes the 2 share: purple hair (by way of the unique Gene Wilder model), foolish clashing outfits together with a prime hat (which the large determine of the Weasleys’ faces outdoors of their retailer additionally wears), an plain expertise for underhanded but quipping insults, and even listening to loss. As we all know, George loses an ear whereas making an attempt to flee the Death Eaters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and there’s a scene the place Gene Wilder mentions he is “a trifle deaf in this year” . . . hmmm, coincidence?
When all is claimed and performed, there isn’t a denying that the similarities are there. Perhaps we all know extra about Willy Wonka than we thought and this Wonka character is definitely a Weasley!
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