[HPforGrownups] James Potter- Prefect/Head Boy?

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 53120

> 
> Olivia Grey wrote:
> >>How James found the time to run around with the Maruders, play
> Quidditch, 
> become prefect and Head Boy,learn to become an Animagus, antagonize 
> and be antagonized by Snape,court Lily, and still be able to graduate 
> is beyond me. I can't even return my library books on time.>>


Aldrea asked: 
> What's this?  Sorry if I'm nitpicking, but Harry's dad, Head Boy and 
> a Prefect?  Is this canon/JKR stated anywhere(and I'm just behind the 
> times..if so, my apologies!), just a personal theory of your's, or 
> did you just get caught up in listing things?
> 

Well, we know he's Harry's dad ;) from book 1. 

We know from Hagrid that he was Head Boy (also from Book 1). 

British listies have told us on various occasions (you can search
through the message archive to find the exact messages) that generally,
the Head Boy and Head Girl are chosen from among the prefects in the
previous year(s), which is why, I think, Olivia drew the conclusion that
James had been Head Boy.

Technically, we don't know if he and Lily dated in Hogwarts either - for
all we know, they could've been different years (no, JKR has never said
otherwise, to the best of my knowledge) - but as she has said that
Snape, and by extension, James and the Marauders, were "35 or 6"
(http://www.comicrelief.com/harrysbooks/pages/transcript.shtml), we have
to mathmatically conclude that James was somewhere between 20ish and
25ish when Harry was born.

Note: we don't know if she meant 35 or 6 at the end of Book 4, the
beginning of Book 4, or, in fact, the beginning of the series itself,
hence the five year split on the possible ages.


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