Who'll be a prefect?/that boring Harry guy

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 11692

Hi --

cassandraclaire at mail.com wrote:

> *hugs Ebony* Thanks, Eb. I always felt mildly offended by the
> reference to Hermione as "the girl". Frankly, I feel almost as
> irritated by reference to Ron as "the sidekick" and even to Harry
> as "the hero." IMHO, this strips down JKR's lovely complex characters
> into overly simplistic stereotypes.
>
> I would also like to see Ron made a prefect, although frankly I doubt
> he's got the grades. Not a slam against Ron, really - I doubt Harry's
> got the grades either. I'm amused by your suggestion that Ron would
> then go Mad With Power. He's probably got it in him, but...we will
> see.

I agree with Cassie (and Ebony) re: the stereotypes.  :--)

As for the prefect issue -- I'm not even so sure about Hermione.  How
will the professors/staff feel about her close friendship with 2
notorious rule-breakers?  :--)  Sure, she's got the grades and she's an
obvious choice but for her association with her 2 best friends and her
own past involvement in fairly serious rule-breaking.  I guess some of
the things that she's done may not be known by the teachers (stealing
the polyjuice potion ingredients from Snape's office for example).  But,
all in all, I'm not completely positive that she will be made prefect
either.

But, she's a much clearer choice than Harry or Ron.  Like Cassie, I'm
not sure how their grades stack up with the other Gryffindors.  I have
the feeling that they are both about average, perhaps slightly above
average, as far as grades go.  But, more importantly, are they really
the type students to be put in charge of seeing that everyone else
adheres to the rules?  <g>

I think my bet is on Hermione (Parvarti if not Hermione) and Dean
Thomas.  Don't ask me why I chose Dean -- he just "seems" like he might
be smarter than Seamus.  And, I figure Neville's potion grades are going
to throw his overall grade average way down.  And, he'd never remember
the password to let everyone into the Common Room.  <g>

> As for Harry being boring, as per an earlier argument, I am mystified
> that anyone can find brave, funny, scrappy, rulebreaking, vulnerable
> little Harry boring.

No surprise that I agree with this too.  Sure, he may not have a
sarcastic and humorous retort for everything like Ron, but that's so
inconsequential to me.  There's so much more to Harry.  Boring?  No way!

Penny


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