Who'll be a prefect?

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No: HPFGUIDX 11713

Harry is really not prefect material.  He and Ron, neither are 
really.  They make okay grades and they do find a way to get into 
some sort of trouble.  Hermione is the shoo-in.  The only other thing 
that I think might be a possiblity would be Neville.  Neville has 
changed so much, and we saw so much more of him in GoF.  I think we 
all really know now why he is Gryffindor, and I also think being a 
prefect would make him come into his own.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., sashibuya at h... wrote:
> --- 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