James as head boy (Re: Voldemort's Intentions & Snape's Expectations (Hagrid))

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 189874

-- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

June:
> > In order to be Head Boy you first have to be a prefect and Sirius
> > said they would never make him or James a prefect because they
> > were always getting into trouble.

Bart:  Not necessarily. While they can be the leader of the prefects, they 
> can also be the equivalent of student body presidents in other countries.

Geoff:
Yes, but we're not considering other countries, we're looking at a British
situation and June is correct in that the Head Boy is one of the prefects.

I was a prefect in an English grammar school and that was the norm for 
other schools. We were usually chosen in the Lower Sixth and, in the 
Upper Sixth, an experienced prefect would be chosen to be the Head Boy
(or School Captain in our case).

In the case of my school, pupils were chosen to be prefects by consensus
between the staff and the existing prefects.