FLINT!

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "psychic_serpent" 
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> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Queer as John 
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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 think this is a mystery, not a Flint. What did Lupin do to
discredit  himself?

I got the impression Lupin was made prefect so that he could 
rein in James and Sirius, only that didn't work.  Remember the 
prank hasn't yet happened in the Pensieve scene.  "Sirius 
showed he was capable of murder at the age of *sixteen*." 
(emphasis mine). Snape would have thought Lupin was joking 
about being a werewolf in the conversation he overheard.

Possibly Dumbledore took Snape's belief that Lupin must have 
been in on the prank in sixth year seriously enough to make 
James Head Boy instead.

Pippin
more on the main list later--is ESE Lupin the theory that's going 
to annoy JKR? If so, should I stop discussing it?