Making Draco a prefect WAS Re: How many prefects per house?

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 91424


 Sue wrote:
> who like a previous poster wonders why Draco was made a 
> prefect.  Is the Slytherin class from this year *that* bad?

Probably not. I'd reckon the mental equation went something like:

X = 
Discipline problems resulting from making Draco a prefect 
- 
(ability to control him by threatening to *remove* prefect status 
+ 
side-benefit that Lucius Malfoy will regard Snape 'very highly').

Y = 
(Discipline problems resulting from any other prefect trying to 
control a mightily annoyed non-prefect Draco 
multiplied by 
percentage chance of new fifth year male prefect asking to resign 
because Crabb and Goyle keep breaking his wand and stuffing his head 
down the toilet) 
+ 
side-effect that Lucius Malfoy will see Snape as having 'gone over 
to Dumbledore *entirely*.

If X is less than Y, make Draco a prefect. You'll have fewer 
problems that way. [grin]

Pip!Squeak