[HPforGrownups] Re: Thoughts on Ron Weasley

[Anne Robotti]

No: HPFGUIDX 72178

RoxyElliot wrote:

But who else?  Seamus and Dean seem pretty darn average.  Neville is getting

braver, but still isn't assertive enough to be a prefect.  Parvati and 
Lavender don't seem like they'd be interested.  For me the minor characters
are 
developed enough for me to know that none of them would make great prefects.

Ron strikes me as a better choice than Harry.  He shows a lot of common 
sense, and I always thought of him as being a good leader.  Also, Harry has
this 
larger destiny.  I think he's just to darn busy saving the world from evil
to 
worry about other students misbehaving.

Now me:

I guess that's sort of my point. As students, Harry and Ron seem somewhat
mediocre. There's no evidence that they're particularly leaders in their
houses. Is the prefect-ship based solely on the Voldemort thing? I just
don't like it. I don't like that Ron, Harry and Hermione seem to have been
the only ones in the running for prefect. That seems artificial.

Anne