Hagrid's blunder or can any student by head boy/girl

[witchwriter_no1]

No: HPFGUIDX 93996

> > Dan wrote:
> > > So can any of the students be head boy/girl, or did Hagrid have 
> his 
> > > facts wrong?

> > Potioncat:
> > It appears that being a prefect isn't required to be a head 
> boy/girl.
> > There have been lots of ideas as to why James was given 
 > BTW, do we know who the Gryffindor girl prefect was for that year 
> > group?

Sue Wrote:
> We do not have canon for the girl prefect, but my guess would be 
> Lilly.  She is the one who tries to stop the Marauders in the 
> pensieve and she seemed to feel full authority to do so.  Hermione 
> anyone?
> 

Witchwriter writes: 
    I may be wrong on this point, but I thought that I heard rather 
read in the books(I dont have them with me to support my opinion with 
canon.) that a headboy or girl can be only those who have been 
prefects. So this would mean that hagrid ad his facts wrong.
But the huger possiblity is my fact being wrong. 
    Anycase, coming to Lilly being prefect and head girl( most 
possibly both) , we have no canon evidence that they were both from 
the same year. The students of one year write the exams together in 
one hall. If Lilly had been in the same year, then she would have 
written the exam in the big hall(to which Harry had been transposed 
through Snapes pensieve.). But she was not to be discussed in the 
hall I therefore strongly feel she must have been a year or more 
younger than the Marauderers and Snape. She was among other girls 
under a tree when the marauderers came out of the exam hall. 

Hoping not to lose my chocolate frog...

Witch Writer