Final Choice-Bar Scorpius Phenomenon

“Oi, Malfoy, you seen this?” Ethan Goldstein, a boy in the year above, asked, shoving a piece of parchment into Scorpius’s face. Scorpius took it as politely as he could and saw that it was the prefect patrol list for that year. Professor Mayweather, the headmistress, had allocated the prefect position to Scorpius, which, inevitably, caused some uproar. What most students didn’t know was that Professor Mayweather had literally offered the position to every other Slytherin boy there was, but they all turned it down.
Edmund Burke was first choice. After all, why wouldn’t he be? He was intelligent, responsible and had a knack for making people trust and like him, despite being a Slytherin. No-one really trusted Slytherins, no matter what they might say, but …show more content…
Rowle was awful; he was rude, biased and bigoted. If Rowle had been willing to take the position, he would have been taking points off other houses left, right and centre while awarding Slytherin points for nothing. Luckily, Rowle refused, but didn’t disclose his reasons to anyone.
Final choice - bar Scorpius - was Roy Travers. Travers could have easily been Vincent Crabbe’s reincarnation and was so repulsive that Scorpius was almost offended that Travers placed higher on the list than him. It was probably a good thing for the entire school when Travers declined in order to concentrate on Quidditch, for which he played Seeker, only to be kicked off a few months later for fighting with the Captain.
Of course, this left Scorpius as the only choice. And, as he was the last resort, he wasn’t allowed to say no. The uproar started as soon as people found out on the first day of school. There was even more uproar about who would be willing to patrol with him, which only died down when Haley Wood, his fellow Slytherin prefect, had volunteered on account that she’d be the least likely to kill him. No