OotP Mistake (spoilers)

[Claire Browning]

No: HPFGUIDX 62363

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "laurence59" <laurence59 at y...> 
wrote:
> Maybee im wrong but in OotP Malfoy threatens to take house points 
off 
> because he is a member of the 'Inquisitorial Squadron(?)'. It is 
then 
> noted that prefects cant take points off. Yet on CoS Percy takes 
> points off Ron for being in a girls bathroom whist 'fingering hs 
> prefects badge' - he isn't even head boy yet.
> 
> Just a Thought
> 
> Laurence

This topic has been mentioned in other posts, so I apologize if I am 
repeating something, but it could it be that a prefect can only take 
points from the *own* House.  Clearly something a Prefect would only 
do as a last resort, or in Percy's case, the first :)