No prefects from sixth year? and Harry's year.

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No: HPFGUIDX 70361

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> Me too, but then I think it's a slightly sticky problem, Hermoine 
and 
> Ron being the only ones who seem to have the ability to stop Fred 
and 
> George from testing their inventions in the common room. Where are 
> the four other prefects, if there is two from sixth and two from 
> seventh?  
> 
> Fred and George might have listened, well, maybe not, but at least 
> been less dismissive, of a fellow seventh-year.
> 
> I suppose I should just chalk it up to the fact that most things 
> center on Harry's year. This is also how I've resigned myself to 
the 
> fact that Draco has become the Alpha Wolf of Slytherin, almost 
since 
> his first year.
> 
> Darrin

Maybe the other prefects saw no reason to stop the twins.  Ron 
didn't.  Besides nobody stopped the twins' lesser pranks in GOF.

In fact, I see less of a problem with what they did in OotP.  The 
first years were getting paid to eat the seets instead of being 
slipped Canary Creams.

I think do you're right that the answer lies with things centering 
on Harry's year, though.  We see through Harry's eyes and he just 
doesn't notice the other students.  He wasn't even sure about the 
names of some students he had classes (of no more than 20 people) 
with.  If Harry doesn't notice someone then we don't notice them.

As far as Draco being Alpha, he definately is for his year, but I 
don't think we saw him lead the students in other years until OotP.  
Maybe fifth year is old enough not to be dismissed by older 
students.  Or maybe being a prefect had something to do with it.

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