FLINT!

[psychic_serpent]

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> psychic_serpent said:
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> > Has anyone attended a British school with a prefect/head system
> > where someone could become Head Girl or Boy without being a 
> > prefect first? Did JKR forget she had Hagrid say this? (And once 
> > again--she has him exaggerate, but she's never had him get the 
> > FACTS this badly wrong.)
> 
> I noticed this too. My initial reaction was that JKR was just 
> futzing around with the Prefect/Head Boy system again. AFAIK she 
> never actually experienced a boarding school (as either teacher or 
> pupil), and so has taken certain liberties with it. Which is fine, 
> just means that we can't draw conclusions.
 
I thought that possible as well, but if that was the case she missed 
an opportunity for Lupin to comment on how James had finally got his 
act together by the time he was Head Boy in seventh year.  He 
behaved the entire time as though he was the only one among the four 
of them who had any kind of authority while they were in school.  
His statement about being the responsible one seemed to cover more 
than fifth year.  JKR seems to have genuinely forgotten that she 
made James Head Boy, IMHO.

--Barb