[HPforGrownups] Prefect system

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 46201



Darla wrote:
> 
> Hello!
>    Have just been looking over the poll questions etc, and something
> struck me as odd. One of the questions was 'which boy do you think
> will be made prefect?' and i just realised it doesn't make sense. I
> mean, only one boy and one girl can be made head boy/girl, but the
> system i've always known is that quite a few people can be made
> prefects in the same house etc, they just need to have a good
> reputation. (remember mrs weasley telling the twins she'd noticed
> that neither of them had been made prefects?) But a lot of people
> talk about prefects as if only one boy/girl can be a prefect from
> each house. help?
>   Darla.
> 

I suspect that there is only 1 head girl and 1 head boy (Senior
Prefect?), but that normal Prefects are maybe a step below that and not
the same 'rank'.  In some RL British, Australian or New Zealand schools,
they will have a Head boy/girl and as many as 5 prefects for each
'house'.  The senior prefect in some cases is called the 'head boy' or
'head girl'.  This is assuming that the idea is based on RL boarding
style private schools..

Jazmyn