Prefect Ron (was DD on the Dursleys).

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 151260

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, catherine higgins 
<saberbunny at ...> wrote:
>
>   I agree that Ron as Prefect was a little strange. But besides 
Harry, there's Dean, Seamus and Neville as Gryffindor 5th years. Dean 
and Seamus are a little too minor to be made Prefects. That leaves 
Neville, which would have been an interesting choice, post OotP and 
HBP. 

Allie now:

Neville doesn't have a strong enough personality to be a prefect.  
Nobody would listen to him.  Dean or Seamus would have been better 
than Ron, I think, just because neither of them is in trouble all the 
time!  (At least, not that we see.)  JKR could have made one of them 
prefect easily enough by having Harry and Ron wonder who's the male 
prefect in their year when Hermione gets her badge.  I think the main 
reason for Ron to be prefect was so that Harry would have that train 
ride alone with Neville, Luna, and Ginny at the beginning of OoTP.