[HPforGrownups] Re: HRH and their Prefect badges

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 75474


--- "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at mail.ptd.net> wrote:

> If we are going to stick strictly to the book, there
> is no solid 
> evidence that I can recall that any of the above
> violates any 
> rules.  'Midget', might, for all we know, be the
> accepted term 
> for first-years, analogous to 'plebe' at Annapolis. 
> Just because 
> Hermione doesn't like it doesn't mean it violates a
> rule.  Again, 
> we have never been shown a rule that Fred and George
> were 
> violating.  Ditto with the brain-boosting products.

I never said anything about him calling them midgets. 
It's the forgetting to show them to their dorms I was
calling him on.

I'm sorry, but if what Fred and George were doing by
testing the fainting things one the first years wasn't
against the rules, it should have been.  The first
years didn't know what the effect of them was.  I
can't say anything for the later ones, as the first
years seemed to know what was going on then.

It was implied that the brain boosting stuff was
against the rules, if not stated.


> 
> Regarding Fred and George, Percy couldn't tame them,
> either, so 
> he must have been a poor prefect, too.
> 

Nope.  As I've said time and time again, it's making
the attempt that counts.  It's one thing to be unable
to do something; there's no shame in that.  But to not
try to do your job?  That's different.

> Furthermore, in the last two items, Ron was merely
> tempted. 
> Since when does resisting a temptation disqualify
> one from any 
> office?  Anybody, even the weakest person, can stick
> to the 
> straight and narrow when not tempted to stray; but
> to do the 
> right thing when one is actually tempted to do
> otherwise takes 
> real strength.  Compare Twain's "Man that Corrupted
> Hadleyburg."
> 

I didn't bring up the firewhiskey.  




Rebecca

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