Prefects and French translations

[Florence]

No: HPFGUIDX 16935

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> >The largest deviation I've run into so far is when Harry asks Ron 
> what 
> >prefects are and gets a short explanation.
> 
> Ooh, tell us!  You may help clear up one of the Great Abiding 
> Mysteries of HP:
> 
> Why Did Voldemort Try to Kill Baby Harry?
> What Did Snape Do the Night of June 24, 1995?
> and
> What the *&$^# Do Prefects Do, Anyway?

Well I'm not sure what's written clears up any great mysteries, but 
for what it's worth:

...Bill etait prefet en chef et Charlie capitaine de l'equipe de 
quidditch. Maintenant, c'est Percy qui est prefet.
 - Prefet? Qu'est-ce que c'est que ca? demanda Harry.
 - C'est un eleve charge de maintenir la discipline, repondit Ron.  
Une sorte de pion...Tu ne savais pas ca?
 - Je ne suis pas beaucoup sorti de chez moi, confessa Harry.

Which loosly translated by me reads:

"Bill was Head Boy (lit. head prefect) and Charlie was captain of the 
quidditch team. Now Percy is prefect."
"Prefect? What's that?" asked Harry.
"It's a student in charge of maintaining discipline" replied Ron "A 
sort of pawn.. Didn't you know?"
"I don't get out much at home" admitted Harry.

In general, a prefects main job is to make sure other children don't 
run in the corridors, do go outside at break and don't lurk in 
forbidden bits of the school, but the scope probably varies from 
school to school.  Most people only want to be prefects as it looks 
good on a CV, but from what I've heard many people put it on their CVs 
anyway.

Florence (never a prefect!!)  

Sheryll  I seem to have the same French version as Gaynor, the bit you 
quoted is on page 46/47 and is more complete.  It is the Folio junior 
copyright 1998 version.  I'd be interested in your sumarry of 
differences when you've done it please - Thanks