Who'll be a prefect?

[sashibuya at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11710

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Ebony wrote:
<snip>
> 
> I agree completely, with this and with your take on the two boys as 
> each wishing he had the life of the other.  I don't see Ron as Poor 
> Ron--but sometimes Ron does.  Not to the extent of really feeling 
> sorry for himself, or even feeling seriously jealous most of the 
time, 
> but just to the extent you describe:  he'd like to change places 
with 
> Harry.  So I think his being prefect would both be a nice twist and 
a 
> source of some interesting dynamics between him and Harry.
> 
> I overstated my own sense that "everything comes to Harry."  What I 
> really meant was that everything *happens* to Harry.  The same 
thing 
> that made me cheer for the 15 seconds I thought he wasn't going to 
be 
> Triwizard Champion is at work here.  If Harry became a prefect it 
> would probably just get him into some serious, life-endangering 
> trouble, same as the Tournament did, but still, he'd be at the 
center 
> of things.  As usual.  I guess that's why his name's on the cover, 
> huh?  ;-)
> 

I don't know if being a prefect is very life endangering at all... :) 
I mean, when did we see Percy doing anything life-threatening during 
his tenure? BTW, can somebody with more knowledge of the British 
school system help me out here? What is it exactly that the usual 
duties of a prefect and/or Head Boy/Girl consist of? I went to a 
extremely egalitarian US school where we had no valedictorians or 
prom royals, and where the student government was scoffed at by most 
students. 
(BTW, I recently read Tom Brown's School Days, partially to see where 
the whole boarding school story began. Very different system from HP, 
understandably, but I was struck by the emphasis on not "telling 
tales.")

I think it would be cool to see Ron become a prefect. That would give 
him an interesting extracurricular. I mean, when have we seen Ron in 
a leadership position before? I wonder if Harry will eventually 
become Quidditch captain. 

> Penny wrote:
> 
> >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?  :--)  
> 
> Yeah, but don't you wonder about these staff sometimes?  I mean, 
they 
> made James "you think the Weasley Twins are bad" Potter Head Boy.
> 

Judging from the list, we wonder about the staff quite a bit. :) I 
mean, I'm still trying to figure out why we never really see 
Professor Sinistra, even though she's taught our heroic triumvirate 
for four years.... One does have to imagine, snickering, the staff 
seated around a table discussing the prefect candidates for Harry's 
next school year. 

Charmian