Dr Winterbourne
Time Turners
I think that Harry will go back too. Presumably a clue, or a trail of clues will lead him there, and then he will attend, whilst looking around for the horcrux.
If the ministry appoint the head, Fudge perhaps, or Percy, then will they want Harry Head Boy?
Maybe Dumbledore's brother will take the spot, and keep training Harry. Any of the Auror's we've met could easily fill the spot of DADA teacher.
Anyway, I still think Harry will be Head Boy. In OotP, on page 166-7, Harry goes into a chain of thought about his superiority to Ron which is precipitated by Ron receiving the Prefect badge. This may seem unbecoming, but really, everyone else seems to think it odd too. Moody, Hermione, Fred, George, Harry and Ron himself all seem to know that Harry SHOULD have gotten the position. Even Kingsley Shackelbolt is surprised (pg 172). Lupin sums up Dumbledore's behaviour the best: 'He'll have his reasons'.
Those reasons are:
'I feel I owe you another explanation, Harry,' said Dumbledore hesitantly. 'You may, perhaps, have wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess ... that I rather thought you had enough responsibility to be getting on with.' (OotP 844).
So really, Dumbledore WOULD have chosen Harry, as seemed natural to all, had not the destiny to slay or be slain by He Who Must Not Be Named taken precedence over worldly concerns.
When Harry is driven to thoughts of the battle against Voldemort by a boggart and the thought of his friends' deaths '...he felt older than he had ever felt in his life, and it seemed extraordinary to him that barely an hour ago he had been worried about a joke shop and who had gotten a prefects badge' (OotP 178).
Ron knows full well he is not the rightful prefect: 'It's a pain having to go down there, I'd rather - but we have to - I mean, I'm not enjoying it, I'm not Percy,' (OotP 184)
Hermione knows it's right, and does her duty without awkwardness, and Harry doesn't feel that it's weird at all. Destiny, and one's rightful place comes into these books quite often.
The Sorting Hat sings of splitting the students into houses (OotP 204). All four houses were meant to exist together, to function together. Thus, Slytherin's cunning and pure blood have a role to play. As do clever Ravenclaws, brave Gryffindors, and 'good' Hufflepuffs.
Perhaps Slytherins are there for those of pure blood, who, through their ambition, become rulers - a type of Royalty. With Gryffindors to be warriors. And Ravenclaws to be scholars and academics. And Hufflepuff the rest.
Like the caste system, one accepts their place, and their role, and the duty of others. It is the corrupt 'Lord' that has discredited the house of Slytherin, and made a concern for pure blood suspect - as Tolkein lamented of Hitler, he had made the proud Teutonic feelings forever suspect. (The blood of the Numereans plays a great role in LotR). Malfoy - blonde, pure-blooded - is an obvious symbl of a Hitlerian concern, and a none-too-subtle one. But there is a proper way to consider pure blood a virtue, just as there is pride to be had in the others, or else Slytherin would have always been suspect, and not included in the houses of Hogwarts.
But perhaps he became obsessed with pure blood after the rules were set in place - I think I recall something of that nature from Chamber of Secrets. And also, by page 206 of OotP, the Hat has fears that 'quartering' each year may be a worry, that it leads to divisions in what should be united. The Order of the Pheonix NEEDED its Slytherin - who else would agree to kill Dumbledore?
Hang on, this is about Head Boy, wasn't it? Okay, I don't think Ron will be Head Boy. It is not his destiny to rule. Like Fulke Greville, the best friend of Sir Phillip Sidney, Ron's epitaph will proudly read 'Friend of Harry Potter'.
Harry does have alot to be getting on with, but in the records of the school, it behoves Hogwarts to proudly state that whist he was here, The Boy Who Lived was Head Boy and Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, like his father before him. (That title 'Boy Who Lived' is just begging for him to die, isn't it?).
So, I reckon it'll be Harry. And that perhaps Draco will be Head Boy of Durmstrang.
Or it could be Ernie Macmillan. He seems the aristocratic type.
If the ministry appoint the head, Fudge perhaps, or Percy, then will they want Harry Head Boy?
Maybe Dumbledore's brother will take the spot, and keep training Harry. Any of the Auror's we've met could easily fill the spot of DADA teacher.
Anyway, I still think Harry will be Head Boy. In OotP, on page 166-7, Harry goes into a chain of thought about his superiority to Ron which is precipitated by Ron receiving the Prefect badge. This may seem unbecoming, but really, everyone else seems to think it odd too. Moody, Hermione, Fred, George, Harry and Ron himself all seem to know that Harry SHOULD have gotten the position. Even Kingsley Shackelbolt is surprised (pg 172). Lupin sums up Dumbledore's behaviour the best: 'He'll have his reasons'.
Those reasons are:
'I feel I owe you another explanation, Harry,' said Dumbledore hesitantly. 'You may, perhaps, have wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess ... that I rather thought you had enough responsibility to be getting on with.' (OotP 844).
So really, Dumbledore WOULD have chosen Harry, as seemed natural to all, had not the destiny to slay or be slain by He Who Must Not Be Named taken precedence over worldly concerns.
When Harry is driven to thoughts of the battle against Voldemort by a boggart and the thought of his friends' deaths '...he felt older than he had ever felt in his life, and it seemed extraordinary to him that barely an hour ago he had been worried about a joke shop and who had gotten a prefects badge' (OotP 178).
Ron knows full well he is not the rightful prefect: 'It's a pain having to go down there, I'd rather - but we have to - I mean, I'm not enjoying it, I'm not Percy,' (OotP 184)
Hermione knows it's right, and does her duty without awkwardness, and Harry doesn't feel that it's weird at all. Destiny, and one's rightful place comes into these books quite often.
The Sorting Hat sings of splitting the students into houses (OotP 204). All four houses were meant to exist together, to function together. Thus, Slytherin's cunning and pure blood have a role to play. As do clever Ravenclaws, brave Gryffindors, and 'good' Hufflepuffs.
Perhaps Slytherins are there for those of pure blood, who, through their ambition, become rulers - a type of Royalty. With Gryffindors to be warriors. And Ravenclaws to be scholars and academics. And Hufflepuff the rest.
Like the caste system, one accepts their place, and their role, and the duty of others. It is the corrupt 'Lord' that has discredited the house of Slytherin, and made a concern for pure blood suspect - as Tolkein lamented of Hitler, he had made the proud Teutonic feelings forever suspect. (The blood of the Numereans plays a great role in LotR). Malfoy - blonde, pure-blooded - is an obvious symbl of a Hitlerian concern, and a none-too-subtle one. But there is a proper way to consider pure blood a virtue, just as there is pride to be had in the others, or else Slytherin would have always been suspect, and not included in the houses of Hogwarts.
But perhaps he became obsessed with pure blood after the rules were set in place - I think I recall something of that nature from Chamber of Secrets. And also, by page 206 of OotP, the Hat has fears that 'quartering' each year may be a worry, that it leads to divisions in what should be united. The Order of the Pheonix NEEDED its Slytherin - who else would agree to kill Dumbledore?
Hang on, this is about Head Boy, wasn't it? Okay, I don't think Ron will be Head Boy. It is not his destiny to rule. Like Fulke Greville, the best friend of Sir Phillip Sidney, Ron's epitaph will proudly read 'Friend of Harry Potter'.
Harry does have alot to be getting on with, but in the records of the school, it behoves Hogwarts to proudly state that whist he was here, The Boy Who Lived was Head Boy and Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, like his father before him. (That title 'Boy Who Lived' is just begging for him to die, isn't it?).
So, I reckon it'll be Harry. And that perhaps Draco will be Head Boy of Durmstrang.
Or it could be Ernie Macmillan. He seems the aristocratic type.
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