Gryffindor's Prefects: DD's subtle put-down?

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No: HPFGUIDX 67029

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Michael Vaccian" 
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 Did Ron really have extra je-ne-sais-
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> There's always the possibility that Ron, Hermy *and* Harry could 
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> Michael V.

I think that Ron would have been, once again, a second choice had 
Dumbledore not had the concerns about Harry that he voiced at the 
end of OoP. Perhaps it is more then grades to be a perfect and Ron 
has, if for no other reason the being Harry's friend, his name known 
by most of the Gryffindor House so that might have helped him 
enforce the rules with all but Fred and George. However, he did not 
seem interest or as interest in enforcing the rules as Hermonie was 
with all the people she saw as rule breaks. 

So that is another question, assuming Ron was a qualified second 
choice, why either Ron or Harry, of who neither seem all that 
willing to enforce the rules to the extent that a Hermonie or 
another perfect might have done, so was Ron or Harry qualified in 
that sense? They break more rules then anyone else at Hogwarts, 
always for a good cause but they still break them which makes for an 
interesting conflict of interest if you put them in a position to 
enforce the rules. 

-RJ