OOP: prefects & head boy

[Me1is]

No: HPFGUIDX 61989

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "doseylel" <doseylel at a...> 
wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand the process of selecting Head Boy and 
> Girl.  I was under the impression that head boy and girl were 
chosen 
> from the prefects.  We already knew that James was Head Boy, but in 
> OOP we learned that Lupin was made prefect in 5th year.  Of course, 
> if they were in different houses, this wouldn't matter, but I've 
> always pictured MWPP as being in the same house.  Am I way off base?


I really don't know much about the UK prefect system, but in 
Australia we have houses (four of them), and in each year level you 
have a male and female house captain for each house (similar to being 
a prefect) and then in year 12 (last year of school) a male and 
female school captain are chosen, in addition to the house captains.

In this situation you do not have to be a house captain to become 
school captain.  Infact, I don't think you are allowed to be both 
house captain and school captain at the same time.  If the 
prefect/headboy/girl system in the UK is the same as the house 
captain/school captain system in Australia, then Harry could very 
easily become Head boy without ever being a prefect.

"Melis"