[HPforGrownups] Re: OotP Harry not a prefect & his Inner Voice

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 115257

> Cory again:
>
> Sure she could have, but she didn't.  Having Ron and Hermione as
> prefects enabled her to demonstrate certain things about their
> characters -- Hermione got to show that she has a backbone (standing
> up to the twins when they were feeding their joke candies to the
> first years).  Ron...well I don't know, exactly; he didn't exactly do
> a bang-up job as a prefect.  It did give him his much-needed chance
> in the spotlight, though.

That HG was a prefect made sense to me, both plot-wise and in terms of what
I expect a prefect to be.  But Ron as prefect didn't do anything as a
character or plotwise, so the purpose kind of escaped me.  That's why it
read to me as a bit heavy-handed on the author's part, or as someone else
said, he's a prefect b/c he's a main character.  To contrast, when Harry and
Ron run off to rescue HG from the troll in SS, I didn't think, "A-ha! They
are going off to be heroes because they are the main characters!"  That was
why they were going to be the heroes, but the authorial intent wasn't so
obvious... Although, with Ron as prefect, I'm still not sure what the
authorial intent is.  Maybe he'll become a responsible upstanding academic
citizen or something.

Feklar