The Prefect Question (was Head Boy)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 70178

Kathryn wrote: 

> 
>  People keep on (on every mailing list I'm on) asking about this. 
They say that because Remus was a prefect in the fifth year that 
James wasn't a prefect *ever*. Do we know that the school doesn't 
appoint *more* prefects in the sixth and/or seventh year? If we stick 
to just two per house per year that's a total of 24 plus Head boy and 
Head girl, which seems rather low to me for the size that JKR says 
Hogwarts is. Certainly the school I was at pretty much the entire of 
the 7th year were prefects (with the exception of those like the 
Twins who shouldn't *ever* be put in a position of authority)


The number of prefects and when they are chosen is a question I raise 
in another post, but there is another possibility regarding James and 
Lupin and their being prefects, assuming there is only the one.

Lupin could have resigned, or was forced to resign, after the 
Shrieking Shack incident.

That could have been part of the deal that kept Snape quiet about the 
whole thing. D-Dore doesn't appear to have wiped Snape's memory of 
the incident. Snape, though he talks in PoA about being "forced" to 
keep quiet, might have demanded Lupin no longer have authority over 
him as a condition of not running to the Daily Prophet.

Or Lupin, knowing that it was a very close call and he could have 
killed not only Snape, but James, resigned on his own. 

James, who after all is talented and bright and had just shown some 
maturity with the Shrieking Shack thing, gets the job.

Darrin