Prefects

In Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, they met Fred, George, and Lee Jordan, who were stocking up on Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Fireworks, and in a tiny junk shop full of broken wands, lopsided brass scales, and old cloaks covered in potion stains they found Percy, deeply immersed in a small and deeply boring book called Prefects Who Gained Power.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Rowling, J. K. 1999

Cars, from smart saloons to Ford Prefects and Morris Traveler estates and old jalopies, were flying more Italian flags and at least one Saltire.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

This touching scene will, of course, be enacted only after the Prefects of the provincial councils (erstwhile Member States, that is) have foregathered in The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and, like the ancient Saxon Witangemot, duly chosen Smuggo as our new Monarch.

Archive 2008-01-06 2008

In a remarkable - though wholly unsurprising - move The Erich Honecker Gordon Brown Regime has teamed up with some other regional Prefects to 'persuade' the EU to adopt a measure which will allow UK citizens to be tried in absentia by foreign courts.

That Stasi Tendency, again 2008

The House Prefects were the Gods of the House, but the Head of House was the Almighty.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

In a remarkable - though wholly unsurprising - move The Erich Honecker Gordon Brown Regime has teamed up with some other regional Prefects to 'persuade' the EU to adopt a measure which will allow UK citizens to be tried in absentia by foreign courts.

Archive 2008-08-31 2008

This touching scene will, of course, be enacted only after the Prefects of the provincial councils (erstwhile Member States, that is) have foregathered in The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and, like the ancient Saxon Witangemot, duly chosen Smuggo as our new Monarch.

An Imperial Progress? 2008

Each day he will sit in his office quivering with fear, turned into a piece of jelly by the prospect of a visit from the Prefects who have come to check that he has been doing his prep on time.

Cave! The Head is on the Prowl! 2008

Prefects are well behaved students that are selected for the purpose of managing a classroom when a teacher is absent.

No Strike Will Put Me Out of Work! 2009

We are also organizing a workshop for the new Prefects.

No Strike Will Put Me Out of Work! 2009