OotP Harry not a prefect & his Inner Voice

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 115059


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "feklar" <feklar at v...> wrote:
> 
> Personally, my first reaction was, "Why would Harry have expected be
> a prefect?  And how the hell did Ron become one?!"  ...edited... 
> Harry seems to be indifferent about both academics and rules, so why 
> on earth was he even interested in being a prefect, much less think he
>  qualified?  By the same token, I have no clue how Ron became prefect. 
> 
> ...edited...
>
> Feklar

bboyminn:

First remember that there is a very small pool of candidates for
Gryffindor Prefect; Harry, Ron, Neville, Seamus, & Dean. Neville,
Seamus, and Dean certainly haven't done anything outstanding in their
school careers. Academically, they seem roughly the same as Harry and
Ron, but Harry and Ron have shown that they can take initiative, and
keep their heads (in more ways than one) under pressure. 

If the Death Eaters start kicking down the front door, ask yourself,
who better to guide and protect the first years, Harry and Ron, or
Dean and Seamus? Personally, I'd prefer Harry and Ron.

As far as Ron being a good or bad prefect, this has been debated at
length, and no one has swayed me from the opinion that Ron was no
better or worse than a majority of the other Prefects. I didn't see
any of the other four Prefects stepping in to rein in Fred and George,
so why should Ron take all the heat. No, Ron didn't live up to the
/idealized/ version of a Prefect, but neither did any of the other
Prefects. In Hermione's case, she may have actually over-stepped her
bounds.

Given the presents of Umbridge at the school, and all the weight Harry
was already carrying, and knowing that Dumbledore would, in all
likelihood, have to place upon Harry the 'ultimate' weight, it's more
than fair that he chose Ron. And Ron, took care of his routine Prefect
duties as well as any other Prefect, but in a /pinch/, I'd rather have
Ron as a Prefect.

Just one man's opinion.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)