World Building And The Potterverse/Character Building/Sarah Monette books

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No: HPFGUIDX 167285

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:

> 
> Betsy Hp:
> On this I totally agree.  And I think it may be because the books are 
> winding to a close that this type of weakness (for want of a better 
> word) is coming to the fore.  Ron's quidditch struggles are a perfect 
> example.  It made no sense to revisit the issue, and yet with the 
> limited time still left, we did.  Did Ron develop too fast?  Is there 
> a reason (a plot one I can only assume) that he remain the "goofy" 
> and "not quite good enough" member of the Trio?
> 

Possibly so his lack of self-confidence can bleed over into a year as 
Head Boy?  Given the ending of HBP, it's hard to see how Harry would be 
interested in being Head Boy, at least until Voldy is gone.  I guess he 
might if McGonnagall or whoever made an appeal based on "it was what DD 
wanted," "it will help keep Hogwarts open," etc., but it would 
certainly seem, well, forced for Harry to be Head Boy and still be 
carrying on his own private war while Head Boying and getting ready for 
NEWTS and all the rest.  So maybe Ron and Hermione will be Head Boy and 
Girl to be Harry's "official" backstops?  Of course, that gets us into 
the problem of THEM doing the Head Boy/Girl thing while traipsing 
around with Harry. 

On the other hand, who else COULD be head boy and still have it 
relevant to the plot?  Neville just isn't a viable candidate, and none 
of the other Gryffindors, or males from the other Houses, fit the 
bill.  I GUESS whats-his-face-the-Hufflepuff might be a candidate, but 
it seems a weak solution to the question.

So I'm guessing -- and it is a pure toss-up -- that Hermione and Ron 
will be Head Boy and Head Girl (giving further significance to the 
crowns they were wearing in Harry's dream in OOTP) just as Neville will 
eventually become Herbology teacher (the reason he was dancing with 
Professor Sprout in the same dream).  Since Ron never became Quidditch 
Captain, that gets us around the problem of the Mirror of Erised 
telling the future when we have been assured that it does no such thing.

Maybe Harry could then be Head Boy in the next year, with Ginny as his 
Head Girl.  That would allow him to almost exactly recapitulate James' 
Hogwarts career, which is something JKR seems to be big on.


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