OotP Harry not a prefect & his Inner Voice

[laura_clapham2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 115161


> > 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*. 
 

Princess Laura now:

My feelings regarding the whole prefect storyline is that one 'use' 
of it was to increase Harry's feeling's of isolation and being 
different and misunderstood, which I feel is a theme of the whole of 
OOP.  Whereas they have been a Trio before, now there are plenty of 
times for Ron and Hermione to be some sort of a Duo (not in a 
shipping sense :)).  If you look at the relationships between the 
three of them, while Harry has had fights with both Ron and Hermione 
at different times he has never been alone, whereas in OOP he is in 
some senses.  He feels excluded and misunderstood by both R and H at 
several stages and I feel the prefect plot line adds to this.  By the 
end of OOP Harry's sense of being different and alone are at an all 
time high, learning about his kill or be killed role, however these 
feelings have been developing for Harry throughout the year.  
 
Another thought - R and H as prefects also sets the stage for Harry 
to spend more time with other characters, for example on the train at 
the beginning of the year, and gives these characters more 'air-time' 
so to speak.  

Just my two knuts,
Princess Laura