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

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 126084


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, imamommy at s... wrote:
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> 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

I think that is a very good possibility.  I did not mean to say that
there are no good explanations for Draco being a prefect, only that
there are perfectly good reasons for people to find it surprising and
to think that, on the face of it, it is a very bad idea.

I rather lean to your last sentence.  Snape may very well have said
that Lucius expected Draco to be a prefect, and in order for Snape to
maintain his cover he needed to deliver the position.  

As I said, I think there are scenarios that make sense.  What does not
make sense is claiming that there are no obvious problems with Draco
being made a prefect.

Lupinlore


P.S. Does anyone else find it a little surprising that the fact of
Draco being a prefect ended up making no difference at all in OOTP? 
Despite Hermione's warning to Harry ("You should be careful, Malfoy is
a prefect now, he could make things very difficult for you"), it is
Draco as head of the Inquisitorial Squad that ends of being dangerous.
 Draco as a prefect makes no impression at all.  He does not even
think to use his prefect authority  (whatever that might amount to) on
Harry when he confronts him at the end of the book.