OotP Harry not a prefect & his Inner Voice

[ohneill_2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 115109


Del replies :

> I never said you had to think like me :-) Your point of view is just
> as valid as mine, I'm just telling you where I come from.

Gee, thanks. :-)

*snip*

Del replies :

> Misunderstanding here. I never meant to say that Dean or Seamus ever
> did anything of the *magnitude* of forming and leading the DA (and 
btw
> it was Hermione who formed the DA, not Harry). If they had, we would
> know, of course (well, I guess). I only said that they might have
> formed and/or led their own clubs, which would demonstrate their
> leadership qualities just as well as leading the DA did for Harry.
> Just because Dean would lead the Gobstones club, or Seamus the "A
> letter for an Azkaban prisoner" club, which would admittedly be 
clubs
> much less important than the DA, wouldn't mean they didn't 
demonstrate
> their leadership qualities just as well.

Now Cory:

Ok, that's fair.  I'm not sure I'll ever look at the stories and 
consider the infinite number of possibilities of things that the 
characters might be doing when we're not looking, but at least I know 
where you're coming from now.

Del replies :

> Actually, if you look closely, you'll realise that making Ron and
> Hermione Prefects does not seem to have brought anything to the 
story.
> You say we learned Hermione has a backbone, but let's be honest, 
we'd
> known that for a *long* time (all the way back to PS/SS in fact). As
> for Ron, as you point out, becoming a Prefect doesn't seem to have 
had
> any effect on him. It seems all of it was almost *useless*.

Cory again:

I think for me, what having them as prefects really did was to 
illustrate the contrast in personalities between Ron and Hermione.  
Hermione was willing to risk alienating others in order to impose 
what she deemed to be a sense of justice, and Ron was less willing to 
do so.  We've seen similar contrasts in other phases of the story as 
well - e.g., Hermione's willingness to tell Harry what she thinks 
even when she knows it will anger him, vs. Ron's preference for 
keeping things to himself for the sake of keeping the peace.  Having 
them both as prefects and approaching the job so differently was 
useful as an illustrative device in that regard.  Unnecessary, 
perhaps, but it did reinforce the point.

--Cory