[HPforGrownups] Re: HRH and their Prefect badges

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 75296


--- C M <cmurph18 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca
> Stephens 
> <rsteph1981 at y...> wrote:
> >>>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.<<<
> 
> Me: So we have him, 1) Calling the first years
> "midgets," 2) Failing 
> to lay a smackdown on his older, unruly brothers who
> we all know damn 
> well would've laughed in his face, 3) Considering
> buying Firewhisky 
> at the Hog's Head and 4) Attempting, along with
> Harry, to buy brain-
> boosting products to help with exams.
> 
> I'll agree that that's a strong case for him not
> being 'prefect of 
> the year.' But again, we know very little about
> anything else he did 
> as a prefect. Harry wasn't with him when he and
> Hermione led the 
> first years to the tower (incidentally, I'd imagine
> that a truly 
> crappy prefect would've left that job to Hermione
> and gone to hang 
> out with his friends); for all we know he was
> exceedingly helpful and 
> reassuring to the new students.
> 

I can only judge by what I see.  I see several
incidents of him not living up to his responsibility
(incidentally, I wouldn't have counted considering
ordering firewhiskey among them, though I can't say
why) and I see *one* incidence of him fulfilling his
responsibility without prompting (meeting on the
train).  If I stick my hand into an opaque jar and
pull out three or four green marbles and one purple
marble, I will not assume the jar is mostly purple
marbles - though it's possible that it is.  I have to
go by what is in the book.


Rebecca


ps lest anyone misunderstand me, I like Ron, I think
he's great friend, but I don't see him doing the job
job of prefect

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