OotP Harry not a prefect & his Inner Voice

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 115096


Del wrote:

> I agree. Thus my conclusion would be :
> 
> Harry is not a bad student, he's got good leadership qualities, he 
can
> keep his head cool under stress, so he was a good candidate for the
> Prefect badge.
> 
> But I don't see that there's any way to jump from that conclusion 
to :
> 
> Harry was the best candidate for the Prefect badge.
> 
> Not without assuming a whole lot of things.
> 

Now Cory:

I guess for me, what it comes down to is this.

If we *have* to assume anything about Dean and Seamus, I would assume 
that they are basically average.  We don't really know enough about 
them to make judgments about their abilities or demeanors, and we 
probably never will because basically, they are little more than 
background characters.

When it comes down to it, Hermione and Ron became prefects because 
they are main characters, and having them as prefects added an 
element to the story.  If we knew, say, Parvati and Seamus better, 
maybe we would conclude that they would have been better choices, but 
we don't.  Aside from the argument about Harry being better suited 
than Ron, we are never going to have enough information to know 
whether anyone would have been better than Ron or Hermione for the 
job.

--Cory