Head Boy & Head Girl????

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 35229

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "tanie_05" <tanie_05 at h...> wrote:
> Hey everyone. I just have a quick question. How many Head Boys & Head 
> Girls are there at one time? I thought there was one of each, but I 
> read something on the Internet that makes it sound like there's one 
> in each House. Please help me out!!! Thanks!!
> 
> -Kyrstyne (who is now confused out of her mind)

IIRC, about the only canon we have about the head boy/girl posistion is 
the fact that both James and Lily had the position in their last year 
at Hogwarts. Since they were both Gryffindors and in the same year, 
canon is against that particular I-net rumour.

Lately I've been wondering about head-students too: Maybe my memory is 
starting to fail on the small details (as soon as I finish the book I'm 
reading now, I'll re-read HP again), but it seems that there are years 
when there are NO head boys/girls at all, all the work being done by 
prefects. This would turn the idea of "head boy/girl" into some sort of 
oficial recognition of excelence in studies/duties or other 
cathedratical measures. At any rate, during the Sirius incidents of 
PoA, prefects were left in charge of the different houses, with no 
mention done to any head boys/girls, which is the spawning ground of 
this particular theory.

As always, if anyone has any back-up, counter-arguments or any other 
form of colaboration, they will be greatly appreciated.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf
(He who is way past his bedtime after a long day and hopes he's making 
sense - even though he's too tired to even look up appropiate passages 
to back-up his own theories)