Ron being a great wizard / when is lights out ?

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No: HPFGUIDX 33916

Hi All,

This is my first post after lurking in the shadows, and thought it 
was time I added something to the pot. 

I apologize in advance if I am going over old ground.

Firstly after re-reading PS and going over some of the previous 
mails on whether Ron has the makings of a great wizard. I wonder if 
any one has picked up on Ron knocking out the toll during Halloween.
If we consider that his class had just started to learn the how to 
levitate objects earlier that day, and that the heaviest item they 
had used was a feather (which only Hermione could levitate). Then 
being able to levitate a large wooden club on his first attempt has 
to be a sign that Ron has the potential of being a powerful wizard. 
The odd thing is that this is the only time I can remember where Ron 
gets to show what he can really do, as he gets over shadowed by 
Harry and Hermione, in CS, POA and GOF, perhaps we shall see more in 
the later novels.

On a completely different subject, has anyone wondered how Hogwarts' 
students managed to do any work, when it seems they have Astronomy 
classes at midnight, or can be found working / partying in the 
common room well into the night. 
Assuming normal boarding school rules I would have though the lights-
out rule would be as strictly enforced as the `wandering around the 
school at night rule'.  
In GOA Hermione and Ron are up until three AM helping Harry with his 
Charms for the final challenge. I am not surprised that most of the 
students end up falling asleep in `History of Magic' lesions.
I would have thought it would be the prefect's job to police this, 
which Percy would have loved, but the only time some sort of light's 
out / bed-time rule was enforced, was when the Professor McGonagall 
broke up the Gryffindor party after Harry won his second Quidditch 
match in POA

Yours  sincerely 

Daniel Koo
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Gryffindor til the end