[HPforGrownups] Re: HRH and their Prefect badges

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 75218


--- C M <cmurph18 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

I agree with you completely.


> 
> 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
> 

Gotta disagree here.  Even exluding his behavior with
F&G he didn't do the job.  During OWLS he was going to
buy one of those intelligence-boosting potions,
instead of stopping the sale of them.  And he didn't
even bother to see if the potions were legitimate.  


Rebecca

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