Head Boy and Head Girl (was Snape & James vs Sirius)

[Jamie C]

No: HPFGUIDX 57038

Annechan wrote:


>The rank I was talking about isn't a popularity rank. So I assumed that
>it was about school's grade and academic values. And I didn't say that
>school is the best way to know someone's intelligence (but rather his
>attitude to live with the school rules). But a top student, in a
>school's POV is almost all the time intelligent. Hermione has top marks
>in every class, she is the first student  in her year.

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>I know it's a bad deduction, but I always believed that Head Boy was a
>distinction that you give to the best student (regardless of their
>house). It's not a popularity contest, since Percy is a Head Boy (once
>again I may assume wrongly that he is not popular). It's not based on a
>quidditch value, since Charlie wasn't a Head Boy, but only a quidditch
>captain.

I write:

Just a few of my own humble thoughts on this.

In my highschool, we had an honors society, and then there were the leaders 
of that honor society. Four to be exact, each representing a different 
characteristic: character, scholarship, generosity, and service. These four 
people selected amoung others by teachers and then were elected into their 
possiton by other members of the honors society. This is sort of how I 
thought the Head Boy and Head Girl possitions were chosen at Hogwarts.

You do want more in a leader than simply good grades. You'd want someone 
that other students wouldn't be intimidated by (Anyone say Severus? ^_~) and 
would be capable of being approachable to younger students. You'd want a 
leader with the four characteristics I mentioned above (Generosity, 
scholarshio, character and service.) I think Hogwarts chose to pick James 
and Lily not only on grades, but on their leadership capabilities.

Just my humble opinion! ^_^

-Lost Feyth











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