Prefects AND Burning Feathers (was Re: [Ron Week]: More Questions--and more and more...)

[clairey at airy-fairy.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 16395

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Christian Stubø <prince_galrion at y...> 
wrote:
> --- "Lisa" <linman6868 at a...> skrev: 
> > Even so, I don't recall him screwing up in Potions at all (unlike 
Harry whose Confusing
> > Concoction won't thicken in PoA), whereas there are numerous 
examples of him crashing
> > and burning in Charms and Transfiguration--I always laugh at the 
part where he has to
> > put that feather out with his hat--is it in PS/SS? or CoS?.
> 
> It's in PS, Chapter Ten "Hallowe'en" (p. 126 UK paperback edition), 
and it's Seamus who
> puts fire to the feather, though Ron does have his problems:
> 
>    "It was very difficult.  Harry and Seamus swished and flicked, 
but the feather they
> were supposed to be sending skywards just lay on the desktop.  
Seamus got so impatient
> that he prodded it with his wand and set fire to it - Harry had to 
put it out with his
> hat.
>    Ron, at the next table, wasn't ahving much more luck"
>    '/Wingardium Leviosa!/' he shouted, waving his long arms like a 
windmill.
>    'You're saying it wrong,' Harry heard Hermione snap.  'It's Wing-
/gar/-dium
> Levi-/o/-sa, make the "gar" nice and long.'
>    'You do it, then, if you're so clever,' Ron snarled.
>    Hermione rolled up the sleeves of her gown, flicked her wand and 
said '/Wingardium
> Leviosa/!'
>    Their feather rose off the desk, and hovered about four feet 
above their heads."
> 
> Does anyone remember if Ron has similar problems with Charms and 
Transfiguration after he
> gets his new wand in the beginning of PoA?
> 
> --- "Lisa" <linman6868 at a...> skrev:
> > Query:  is there only one Prefect per House?  
> 
> Doubt it - it would seem prudent to have one prefect of each gender 
at least.  Also, in
> PS, Chapter Six "The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters" 
(p. 72 UK
> paperback-edition), the following appears (it's Percy talking):  
> 
> "'Can't stay long, Mother,' he said.  'I'm up front, the Prefects 
have got two
> compartments to themselves-'"
> 
> The compartments on the Hogwarts Express sound like they're sized 
to six or eight
> persons, but given that the prefects are senior students, six is a 
more likely figure for
> how many can squeeze in there, with luggage and all.  If there were 
only four Prefects
> plus Head Boy and Head Girl, they would need only one compartment.  
If you have eight
> prefects plus Head Boy and Head Girl, they fit nicely into two 
compartments, with a bit
> of room to spare.  If Head Boy and Head Girl are included in the 
eight prefects (but I
> don't think they are - just a gut-feeling), they still need two 
compartments.
> 
> 1.  Could somebody summon up the number of the post by John (I 
think) about the duties of
> prefects in British public schools (in the British sense of the 
word)?
> 
> 2.  Is there an FAQ being written about British public schools?  If 
not, should perhaps
> the above-mentioned post be archived with the FAQs?
> 
> Best regards
> Christian Stubø
> 
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Prefects (at my school)have duties such as, library duty, toilet duty 
and other similar duties at lunch times, they make sure that younger 
students have help with any problems, show future students around, 
and are basically an example to younger students.