[HPforGrownups] Re: Head Boy & Head Girl????

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No: HPFGUIDX 35281

In a message dated 14/02/02 22:52:55 GMT Standard Time, 
greywolf1 at jazzfree.com writes:


> 
> --- 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,
> 

In our school, which is a Prep (up to 13 yrs, but the model is the same for 
many senior schools), we have prefects, drawn from the top year and all 
houses and one head boy and one head girl. These are all appointed by the 
staff. 
Hogwarts similarly appears to have a number of prefects from each house, one 
Head Boy and one Head Girl. 

I agree with Kyli that we simply don't hear about all of them because they 
are not relevant to the storyline. I had always thought it strange that Percy 
seemed to be the *only* Gryffindor prefect until something happened which 
showed or implied there were others ( sorry, can't remember canon, but I'm 
sure it's there somewhere). They just aren't mentioned. Just like some of the 
teachers (I don't think that the names of the Muggle studies or Ancient Runes 
teachers have been mentioned yet, though I'm sure that I will be corrected!).

What's interesting is that the only Head Boys/ Girl we know of are all 
Gryffindors: Bill and Percy Weasley and James and Lily (er...do we *know* she 
was a Gryffindor?). Again, they are all characters relevant to the story and 
to Harry's POV, so that's why we know about them. 

Eloise


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