Prefect Ron (was DD on the Dursleys).

sistermagpie belviso at attglobal.net
Fri Apr 21 21:09:57 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 151261


> 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.

Magpie:
I agree.  Neville has the advantage of being a bigger character than 
Dean or Seamus, but he seems the worst choice for Prefect.  He has 
proven himself brave and exceptional in many ways, but the Prefect job 
isn't really about that; it's about relating to other students in a 
certain way.  Luna's also proved herself very worthy, but she wouldn't 
be a good Prefect either.  I consider myself a fantasic person, but I 
don't think I'd be a good choice either. 

It truly makes you wonder about Remus, actually. Had he not had the 
type of friendship he did with MWPP, he would probably have been a 
fine Prefect.  James and Sirius seem like more of the leader type in 
the Pensieve, but Remus' control in the classroom and authority as a 
teacher is great.  He's good with authority as an adult. I wonder if 
that's something he developed more as he got older, or if DD saw it 
earlier.

-m







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