Who is Head Boy?

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 20641

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., joym999 at a... wrote:
> In GoF, it is never mentioned who is Head Boy or, for that matter, 
> Head Girl that year. <snip> I think that JKR is somewhat 
inconsistent about this Head 
> Boy/Girl/Prefect thing, only mentioning them when it fits into the 
> plot.  However, it seems illogical that we have never been told who 
> the other Gryffindor prefects are (other than Percy, and especially 
> after he graduates), or who the Head Boy and Girl are.

Joy, my favorite witch, don't take this wrong, but maybe JKR doesn't 
tell us this stuff because it's  b o r i n g!  I can't say I care who 
is any of these things until it gets to characters we know and love 
(and introduces exciting innovations like the Bath of Many Taps).  
Hagrid may be impressed that Lily and James were Head Girl and Boy, 
but Harry and Co. don't seem to give a knut.  If anything, being 
prefect or HB/HG (hmm...Hermione's initials...prophetic?  most 
likely) is a social liability to our little band of rulebreakers.

I bet this question will get more interesting to Our Heroes, and 
therefore to us, when they're old enough to be picked or not.  That 
might stir up some interesting feelings.  Will those of the Trio who 
aren't so honored be jealous of those that are?  or of whoever 
becomes a prefect/HB/HG?  Will one or more of them become a prefect 
and have to clean up his/her act?  (I can just see Ron telling 
McGonagall that Harry has an Invisibility Cloak and is probably the 
one who had a midnight party in the greenhouses.  Yeah, sure I can.)  
Will Harry feel pressure to follow in his esteemed parents' footsteps-
-or will he decide, rightly, that defeating Voldemort on a regular 
basis is quite as prestigious?

Amy Z