OOP!!! what now?/characters

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 61889

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rach" <rachrobins at h...> wrote:
> Jodel says:
> >>> Besides, Prefects aren't chosen for "smart", they are chosen 
for 
> leadership abilities. ..... Harry has enough on his plate and 
didn't 
> need that headache as well. And this goes double in spades for Head 
> Boy.>>>
> 
> I found it interesting that James Potter was not a prefect but was 
> chosen as Head Boy (I think I remember Hagrid telling Harry in one 
of 
> the earlier books that his parents were Head Boy and Girl). Head 
Boy 
> must not necessarily be chosen from among the prefects, Harry may 
go 
> on to be head boy after all. 
> 
> It is interesting that James did become head boy given his general 
> conceited manner and behaviour to Snape in the Pensieve scene - 
Lupin 
> and Sirius did tell Harry that James' head deflated somewhat in 
> seventh year - I wonder if Lily was the pure motivation or if there 
> were other issues. Does this coincide with the time Sirius was 
living 
> with James' family? (That is unless HB does actually stand for 
> humungous bighead, as Fred and George pointed out when Percy was 
made 
> head boy! James would have certainly been a candidate!)

How long after James and Lily left school did Voldemort come to 
power?  If it was a very short time, Dumbledore could have already 
been predicting it, and knew that James would be a powerful ally 
against LV and in the school?  Maybe he was taking advice from the 
Sorting Hat :)  

I can't believe Dumbledore made MALFOY a prefect.  That shocks me.

Tamara