HRH and their Prefect badges

[C M]

No: HPFGUIDX 75138

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <c4bchief at y...> wrote:
>>>Imagine this:

Hermione: Harry, you just drank an entire keg of beer.  Give me your 
keys.
Ron: Stop bugging Harry, Hermione; he can make his own decisions.

Which is the better friend?<<<
 
>>>Lori: And what is he driving his firebolt or a thestral?<<<

Me: That's a good question. I wonder what the penalties are for FUI. 
Could they impound his "vehicle?"

Seriously, I'm not sure why people feel a need to point to Ron and 
Hermione's contrasting behaviors toward Harry and pronounce them 
right and wrong (or good and bad) respectively. Hermione is the Yin 
to Ron's Yang. She scrutinizes, second-guesses and occasionally nags. 
He commiserates, encourages, supports and, when needed, tells 
Hermione to back off. Is it so hard to admit that they're *both* good 
friends to Harry? That they *both* care about him? That they *both* 
fill voids in his life? I just don't get why it has to be either/or.

And regarding Ron as a Prefect, I'm (surprise, surprise) with the 
camp that says we know too little about what he's done to assess how 
well he's fulfilling his responsibilities. I don't think that we (or 
Hermione for that matter) should have expected him to discipline F&G. 
As far as we know, there are five prefects in that house that aren't 
Weasleys; nothing's stopping them from "pulling rank" on the twins 
when necessary. I don't see anyone calling for the four unnamed 6th & 
7th year Gryffindor prefects to have their badges stripped when, come 
to think of it, we haven't heard about them doing *anything*. Or 
maybe it's just that the Harry-vision in which things are presented 
to us doesn't bother to cover boring things like prefects satisfying 
the day to day requirements of their job.

CM