[HPforGrownups] HRH and their Prefect badges (was: The next Peter Pettigrew)

[Random]

No: HPFGUIDX 71891


On Sunday, Jul 20, 2003, at 10:27 America/Indianapolis, oh have faith 
wrote:

> Dumbledore still shouldn't make exceptions for him, just because of 
> who he is.

the _exception_ was not being made prefect.. you seem to be laboring 
under the misapprehension that he was not made prefect because he 
wasn't good enough.

> That would be spoiling him.  Harry, as you say, has got over not being 
> a prefect, he now knows the reason why he wasn't made one, so 
> Dumbledore should just let him cope. Besides, there already *are* 
> capable Gryffindor prefects in his year.  And next year, the honour 
> rightfully belongs to two more pupils in the year below him.  However 
> good Harry might have been, the decisions have been made, and they 
> don't now really need another one. As such, giving him the badge would 
> just be an honorific kind of make-Harry-feel-better gesture.  He'd be 
> a special, extra 6th year prefect and that is special treatment. If 
> you want to make the boy feel better, buy him a butterbeer!

The thing is, the best argument that there can be more than two 
prefects per year - HRH fully expected (or at least considered to be a 
possibility) that all three of them _might_ get it. they were surprised 
that harry didn't get it, and were _not_ surprised that the two of them 
did.

> That means no special treats or honours, and so he doesn't get made a 
> prefect a year later because he felt a bit put out at missing out at 
> the proper time.

you don't know how or when prefects are selected... it may well be 
absolutely normal for more prefects to be added in the later years. (at 
least one list member said that at his/her school the entire seventh 
year were prefects... we don't know if hogwarts uses that sort of 
system or not)

--Random832