His Worth
how DARE he! thought Minerva as she slammed her office door behind Albus Dumbledore. how DARE he come down here, to her office, and say that he thinks Harry should not be a prefect for this reason or that. How dare he come down here and order her around, about children he barely knows.
Minerva knows what she is doing. She's only been head of Gryffindor House for 25 years, thank you very much.
She was never going to make Potter a prefect in the first place, and not because of He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, but because, simply, he wouldn't be good at it.
She likes Potter just fine, the young boy is constantly under a fair bit of stress and handles it quite well. What he doesn't do well is notice his surroundings, or care for others, or reign in Miss Granger when she needs it - and when given a bit of power, she is probably going to need it.
But someone else does do all of those things well. He also has decent grades, and a penchant for understanding the letter of a rule vs the spirit of a rule and notices trouble a mile away, because he had to growing up.
Ron Weasley is the perfect prefect. She picked him before even considering deciding between Miss Granger and Miss Patil. It was always going to be Ron Weasley.
As she glares once again at the door that the headmaster had just departed through she sighed. Dumbledore would now tell Potter that he decided that the boy shouldn't be a prefect. He would ultimately let it slip in front of Weasley, and Ronald would once again not understand just how much he was worth.
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