[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron as Head Boy? Was:CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 9, The Woes

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 88947

On 16 Jan 2004 at 16:07, Arya wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <baseball_07_05 at y...> 
> wrote:

> I also agree.  But is it a possibility that Head Boy/Girl is an honor 
> that is voted on my the class?  I was just thinking about it and if 
> it were also a popular vote thing, then that might explain why James, 
> a non-prefect in at least his fifth year and a knowingly popular 
> person got to be Head Boy.  I'm not so sure if PErcy was well liked 
> enough all around to get voted into the position but he was nice 
> enough at the time to have a girlfriend, so who knows.  Is it 
> possible though that it could be put to a vote, though? 

Yes, it is possible - in some schools these positions are elected 
positions. That's probably a minority of schools - but it's a large 
enough minority to make this possible.

>From what I have heard in schools where the positions are elected, 
the students are generally mature enough to make sensible decisions 
- they don't just vote for their friends, they do consider other 
factors - so they might vote for someone like Percy if they think 
he'd do a really good job, even if he wasn't their best friend - 
it'd be hard to get elected if everybody hated you - but you don't 
necessarily need to be the most popular person around.


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