HRH and their Prefect badges

[oh have faith]

No: HPFGUIDX 75127

 Arya wrote:
It would be unreasonable to expect any younger
brother to enforce the rules against the likes of Fred and George.


And someone replied
 
 And if he was cop and they were breaking the law?  He
 agreed to certain responsiblities when he accepted the
 Prefect badge.
 
 I'm not saying Harry would do better, but I am saying
 Ron didn't fulfill his responsibilities.


And I say:
 
It's worth noting that Percy had absolutely no success in curbing the 
activities of Fred and George either, and he being the older brother 
should technically have more influence.  At the end of the day, Fred 
and George just wouldn't have recognised that Ron had any authority 
over them, they would have roared with laughter if he'd even tried.  
Ron was put in a very difficult decision here - it was an absolute 
lose-lose situation.  He could either do nothing and let the other 
prefects handle it. Or  he could take on his brothers, get laughed 
out the building, probably be on the recieving end of a nasty spell 
or two, and so lose any respect that anyone in the common room might 
have had for his authority.  

I imagine prefects aren't generally called upon to discipline those 
in the year above them; older students should understand the rules by 
now and take responsibility for their own actions.  If a problem does 
arise, surely there should be some prefects in the same year as Fred 
and George who would be fighting less of an unequal battle?  They 
were strangely absent.  If I doubt the decision to make Ron a prefect 
at all, it's because I don't think it was really fair to him to put 
him  this position where he'd have to take on his two older brothers 
with seemingly no support (apart from Hermione).  But now Fred and 
George have left, he has a chance to do better, and I think that he 
can.

Faith's Girl