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[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 61810

Kelsey asks:
>>Speaking of prefects, why was Ron made one? Isn't it a bit weird? I mean he 
is not that smart. <<

He is that smart. What he isn't is "intelectual". 

Besides, Prefects aren't chosen for "smart", they are chosen for leadership 
abilities. They are usually also chosen from kids whose schoolwork is adequate 
enough for them to be able to shoulder the extra responsibility. I gather that 
Dumbledore thought (and I think rightly) that Harry has enough on his plate 
and didn't need that headache as well. And this goes double in spades for Head 
Boy.

And from what all is flying about, Harry might have been a bad choice for the 
school to make at this point in time from a purely PR point of view. 
Accusations of favoritism are messy and tend to stick around. Some battles are not 
worth fighting. 

Plus; Dumbledore witnessed Ron's reaction when he saw the Mirror of Erised. 
Head Boy and Quidditch Captain. Well, why *not* give the kid a chance at it if 
he can handle it?

As for Percy the ingrate; doesn't it occur to anyone that a complete, public 
and acrimonious break with his family is the one biggest requirement for the 
Redheaded Pimpernel scenario? I haven't read the book yet, so I don't know 
whether his behavior is compatible with the possibility, but it IS the main 
requirement. *IF* Percy has gone undercover, he will conduct himself in a manner 
that will make it plain to any observer that anything Percy is told will NOT be 
passed on to his father and, presumably, Dumbledore. And if this is the case we 
will not be shown the truth of the mtter until the end of book 7 or Percy's 
death in action, whichever comes first.

Or, he could just have had a case of defered adolescent rebellion finally 
catch up to him. He has been letting his mother dictate his actions all the way 
up to the point of the Third task in GoF wherin he was called on the carpet for 
being a tool in covering up Crouch Sr.'s dissaperance and presumed death. It 
would be a little unreasonable not to expect the boy to feel a bit shirty over 
that. And I doubt that Molly has a light enough hand to mend bridges.

Cheryl the Lynx on Sirius;

>>And for the record, I think he's really dead. JKR said in the interviews 
last week the person was "definitely dead." Of course, she didn't say he would 
stay dead, but she has in the past said no one could be brought back from the 
dead, even with magic. So who knows.<<

Oh it sounds like he's dead all right. But it doesn't really sound like he 
was all that *happy*, does it? Nothing to keep *him* from comming back as a 
ghost.

Question: Did this issue actually get explained or not? Is there any 
description on the desitiction (in Rowling's world) between ghosts and poltergeists? 
(Spoil me, spoil me.)


-JOdel (still waiting for her book to show up.)


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