OOP:Re: As for me... things I liked and didn't like in OotP:vote Ron for Prefect

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No: HPFGUIDX 64790

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zebco606" <zebco606 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Susanne <siskiou at e...> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thursday, June 26, 2003, 6:31:45 PM, Alia wrote:
> > 
> > >  Don't read if you don't know, or want to 
> > > know what kinds of things might be included in such lists. :)
> > > J
> > > K
> > > R
> > > *
> > > R
> > > o
> > > c
> > > k
> > > s
> > > *
> > > *
> > 
> > > Things I HATED:
> > > 1)That Harry wasn't made a prefect.
> > > 2)That of all people, RON, was instead (who hasn't done 
anything 
> > > except on Harry's coatails).
> > 
> > Just one question: who else do you think would have made a
> > better prefect?
> > 
> > Did any of the other people in Griffindor do anything
> > outstanding that would have made them a better choice?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Best regards,
> >  Susanne    
> 
> Actually, I'm a little bit curious about Ron being chosen Prefect 
> too. I thought one of the requirements for this was that one was a 
> good student (something the books imply is not true of Harry or Ron)
> However, he has shown himself willing to sacrifice himself for the 
> good of others. Remeber the chess game?
> 
> I think recognition like this was important in order for Ron and 
> Harry to continue their friendship. After all, you can only be is 
> someones shadow for so long. Perhaps Dumbledore realised this (he's 
> fallible not foolish) and that's why Ron was made prefect.
> 
> 
> dorothy

Delurking (waves sheepishly to group and the Elves and mods) to say I 
totally agree with you.  I thought it was an extremely good decision 
to make Ron a prefect - both for his own sake 
(confidence/responsibility/time with Hermione :-) and for Harry's.  
Harry could not have been an effective prefect at the beginning of 
the year with all the suspicion on him, including that of one of his 
own dorm-mates.  Ron, on the other hand, was given just enough power 
to watch over Harry and (as happened in the fight with Seamus) 
diffuse an ugly situation.  And 
you're right - had any of Ron's inferiority complex from GOF been 
reinforced by his being the odd man out in OOP (assuming Harry and 
Hermione as prefects) - combine it with Harry's aggrieved outbursts, 
and that friendship is probably doomed. 

igsy (who is trying to remember which Catholic school teacher was 
most strongly recalled by DU)