I have a book around the house called Boys Together, a nonfiction work about actual day-to-day life in schools like Eton, Harrow, and Rugby in the mid-nineteenth century. The atmosphere was very like Hogwarts; the boys more-or-less ran their own lives (in between lessons) and got up to stunts that would get their modern descendants thrown into juvie, or whatever's the British equivalent.
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I always assumed that the whole affair was swept under the rug because of Remus. Aside from James certainly wouldn't have gotten punished for saving Severus live (he was not in on the prank after all), if Sirius had been punished, for example expelled, the whole affair would have become public, which would have exposed Remus which in turn would have caused parents to insist that he gets removed from the school. So in the end Remus, the most innocent in this set-up, would have gotten the harshest punishment. So if James matured later on, why shouldn't he have become headboy? Again, he was not the one who pointed Severus to the Willow, Sirius was, James was the one who went and prevented a real catastrophe from happening. And Sirius...I am sure that Dumbledore had an interest in keeping him at Hogwarts and away from his family.
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So if James matured later on, why shouldn't he have become headboy? Again, he was not the one who pointed Severus to the Willow, Sirius was, James was the one who went and prevented a real catastrophe from happening. And Sirius...I am sure that Dumbledore had an interest in keeping him at Hogwarts and away from his family.
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