Prefect / Molly and Artur and the somehting OT on freshers and uni

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 6016

Rita wrote: "If they had been caught out so far after curfew, they would
have been chewed out and given detention. In fact, Arthur *was* caught by
Filch's predecessor Argus Pringle and was given detention. Molly was chewed
out by the Fat Lady but somehow persuaded the Fat Lady not to rat on her to
the prefects or professors."

Of course there is the explanation that the portrait (fat lady) reports to
the prefects and in this case the prefects were Molly and Arthur. In that
case it would be the case that the portrait has no one to inform.


Rita asked: "Do I understand this? A small group of freshers are assigned to
a "mother" (lots of room for bad jokes there) and a "father" instead of a
senior man and senior woman, and the "children" who are in costume are the
freshers?"

In my college the situation is that at the end of the first year you are
given the details of a couple of people who have places for the following
year. In general they either do the same subject or are from the same
locality as you are. After finding out if they got in (i.e. waiting to find
out if they got the required grades and accepted their place) you contact
them to say hello and let them ask any questions they have about university
life. Hence why one of the parents is usually doing the same subject.

At the beginning of the year there are some arranged events where you get to
meet your children (and obviously they get to meet their parents). Of course
there can be some problems with this system. I am myself an orphan - never
met my parents and do not know who they are. Also I now have great grand
children - something that is guaranteed to make me feel old!

Simon