The Weasley Twins: A Good Sort of Cunning (also from Steve)

So, during the dinner convo I had been telling my brother Steve some of the stuff we had been discussing on the blog, particularly the whole thing about "cunning" and Slytherin as water and the fact that cunning is a thing that by nature is good, in fact very good but, "the higher the leap, the harder the ground." And then I entered this sort of rave about how excellent Rowling's characters are, and I was talking about how Fred and George Weasley may be my favorite characters on a personal level, how I absolutely loved (to the point of goosebumps) their exit from the Umbridge-run Hogwarts in book 5 and how they made their last great stand an all out assault of pranks to give Harry a diversion to use the flue network in Umbridge's office and their "marching orders" to Peeves upon their exit ("give 'em hell for us Peeves!"), and how I loved the way those guys played them in the movie, especially the wistful look on the one's face when Harry reads the names of the map producers and the twin says, "we owe them so much." And, again very un-pretensiously, Steve said "yeah, well, if you think about it, they're kind of 'cunning' in a way," and, again, I paused and said, "that's going up on the blog too." It is a prime example of what I was saying about "cunning." Here is an example of it being used well - developed and honed simply in the process of "making fun," but when the call is heard to use it for a greater end, the fact that they developed their "cunning" in a good way becomes obvious in how readily they offer its service to the greater good.