Umbridge, detention, scars, and plotlines, oh my!.

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chys Sage Lattes"
> <yami69hikari at y...> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > 
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> > 
> > As well, Draco is a person everyone would listen to. He's 
probably 
> > academically stable, too. Some people wonder why he got to be 
> > prefect. I say, why not? He probably earned it as much as Ron did.
> > 
> 
> Because Draco is dangerous, malicious, and tyrannical.  That is most
> definitely NOT a person who has earned a position of authority, or 
who
> should be given it even if he has.
> 
> 
> Lupinlore

No, perhaps Nott.  What were the choices for a male Slytherin 
prefect?  Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and Nott are the only one's we know 
of in fifth year, correct?  I can see clear reasons for not choosing 
Crabbe or Goyle, but why Nott not?

The answer may be in how prefects are chosen.  IIRC, Tonks said 
something about her head of house saying she lacked certain 
qualities, i.e. the ability to behave herself, that caused her not to 
get the badge.  This left me with an impression that the heads of 
houses submit names for prefects to DD for approval.  If my theory is 
correct, it would make sense that Snape would submit Malfoy's name 
(as he is constantly praising him for whatever reason), and what 
justifiable cause could DD have for disallowing it?  Yes, I know 
Draco is a git, but as far as I can tell he's got at least as clean a 
record as Ron and Harry, and possibly better grades.  Also, if 
Snape's preferencial treatment of Draco is part of his cover, DD may 
not want to circumvent that strategy.  

imamommy