Ron as prefect?

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 105827

<sherlockholme_ac at r...> wrote:
Question is, what qualities does Ron possess to make him a prefect? 

Amey: (major snippage)
1. He is a very good strategist, producing the best game of chess
Hogwarts has ever seen (Makes you wonder how many games of chess like
this Hogwarts has really seen, doesn't it? OOps, OT)
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I'm sorry, I have to disagree that this is a knonw fact.  Strategist
does not always follow from merely being adept at chess.  In fact, I'd
like anyone to tell me where, besides a chess board, Ron has every
once displayed any skill at stratedy.  Heck, even a strategic thought
would be more than I can recall right now.  Basically, we can assume
that Ron is only truly handy if there happens to be a chessboard
involved. 

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Amey: 
As a prefect, he will be able to control Harry somewhat, when he has
got some sense of Responsibilty. 
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I don't believe this was motive for Dumbledore.  Ron's never really
ever stood up to Harry and disagreed with something Harry wanted to
do--unless it was following spiders in CoS where Ron would have rather
 played with Blast Ended Skrewts that follow spiders into the Forest.  
Besides, Hermione's tehre to keep Harry thinking clearly, that's never
ever been Ron's job so I don't see why Dumbledore would suddenly think
it was.  If anything, I think Ron was chosen because first, Harry was
passed over and second, because Dumbledore could not be sure that any
of the remaining three boys in Gryffindor would not turn on Harry and
make his year even more difficult.  Just imagine what it would have
been like if Seamus, when he'd been on the outs with Harry, had had
the power of being prefect--it could have made things quite bad. So I
say Ron was chosen for his loyalty to Harry.

Arya