Ron as prefect

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 91663

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "astratrf" <astratrf at a...> 
wrote:

Astra:
> Hello there.  I was rereading OotP, and I was left with a nagging 
> question.  Maybe some of you more alert people out there can 
> enlighten me.
> 
> Isn't prefect a position of honor, given to excellent students, who 
> can then boast throughout their life, and put on their resume, "I 
> was a prefect"?

Geoff:
Not necessarily. when I was at my grammar school (which was a day 
school), I was made a prefect in the First Year Sixth and I think it 
was a question of whether you were reliable, whether you could be 
counted on to do duties conscientiously when scheduled to, to be able 
to handle people and get on well with folk. I do not think that 
academic achievement came into it. I can remember one guy who was an 
absolute blinder as an achiever but would have been absolutely 
hopeless as a prefect because he just wasn't on the same planet....