Prefect Privileges/Powers

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 84142

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca Stephens 
<rsteph1981 at y...> wrote:

Rebecca:
> Seems like only you could only bank on ignorance with
> first years.  (and even then really only the
> muggle-borns because a sibling or parent could easily
> tell the child how the place worked - still can't
> believe no one told Ron about the hat; Fred and George
> must have told him when no one was around and Ron
> didn't mention it to anyone)
> 

Geoff:
You're missing a bit of Fred's mischievious humour.....

"Harry swallowed. 'How exactly do they sort us into houses?' he asked 
Ron. 'Some sort of test, I think. Fred said it hurts a lot but I 
think he was joking.'"

PS p.86 (UK edition)

"'So we've just got to try on the hat!' Ron whispered to Harry. 'I'll 
kill Fred, he was going on about wrestling a troll.'"

ditto p.89

One of these rumours and initiation things used by older pupils 
trying to scare the pants of new pupils. I remember something similar 
when I went to grammar school at 11.

Geoff