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Given Moody's CONSTANT VIGILANCE I wouldn't be surprised at him randomly dropping false information into conversations, especially with suspiciously skilled young wizards...
Moody drops all sorts of information, true and false, in his conversations and, when meeting that person again, will see if they recall it.
This is one of the ways he tests for Polyjuice users, animagi, and evil twins.
I hope he also tests for information that is true that he hasn't actually given and wouldn't expect them to have.
This is also a great technique for mapping out social networks, conspiracies, etc.
In the Morverse, twins share a telepathic bond and are sort of the same person. Either both twins are good or both are evil.
Almost certain they aren't telepathic, they're just the same person. You don't have to be perfect rationalists to always agree, if you're irrational in exactly the same way, and have exactly the same information and priors.
/not sure if DanArmak and pedanterrific are serious or just joking
You don't get the Aumann references in all the Twins' POV sections? I'll go dig up some examples, then.
Edit: Here we are:
I got the Aumann references, I was questioning the claim that they are telepathic or the same person (both of which possibilities are damaged by that quote), or whether it was just a joke on the Aumanning.
(On a side note, that reminds me that we still haven't found out how the Skeeter prank was done. After pondering it and imagining myself to be Bruce Schneier, I figure it was an attack on the printer as the weakest link, possibly polyjuicing or otherwise impersonating the editor.)
Oh well yes, the "same person" bit was a joking reference to that. I thought I made that clear with the second sentence. Oops.
And I always assumed, in the absence of evidence otherwise, that it was some mind manipulation of Rita and/or her editor- False Memory Charms, Confundus or Imperius- perpetrated by either Quirrell or Dumbledore.
On the other hand, given his preference for not losing the war against Voldemort he might perhaps avoid dropping too much random false information on a suspiciously skilled young wizard who is credibly alleged to be vital for winning that war.
On the other hand, wouldn't most people already know something like that? It seems like a pretty baldfaced lie, crying out for contradiction.