Prefects and Head Boy (was: thoughts on OotP)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 64902

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "magicalme9" <magicalme9 at y...> 
wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, kuska matz <hpdmieboq at y...> 
> > wrote:
> Snip
> > >  First off, I'm wondering if anyone can find the exact place 
> where 
> > they say that James and Lily Potter were head boy and girl.  I 
> don't 
> > know if anyone thought about this but Ootp said that Lupin was 
the 
> > Prefect, yet I was under  the impression that you had to be a 
> prefect 
> > to become head boy or girl...so how could this be?  If anyone 
finds 
> > anything either supporting or refuting this, I will be grateful 
> since 
> > I have been thinking about it for days.
> > >  
> > > > <3 Irka
> 
> That's been nagging me for a while now as well. Does the Head Boy 
and 
> Girl have to be Prefects? And are there only prefects in the 5th 
year 
> or in the 6th as well? If that were so, then we would have 16 
> prefects (taking, that in 7th year there aren't any prefects), 8 in 
> 5th and another 8 in 6th year. Wouldn't their authorities clash and 
> if you have two prefects cornering you :), whom do you listen to, 
the 
> 5th or the 6th year?
> B.T.W. Who are the new Head Boy and Girl in OotP? It never says 
that 
> in canon, does it?
> magicalme

Head Boy and Girl, I am supposing, is awarded based almost entirely 
on academic performance, whereas, prefects are students who have 
displayed responsibility and /or qualities of leadership.
Though this is a canonless post I am sure if you dig through the 
books a little you'll see that this is as close to implied meaning as 
you can get. 
Lily and James were, indeed, Head Boy and Girl of their year.

Valky