prefect
Definitions of prefect
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a chief officer or chief magistrate
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presiding officer of a school
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
On his eleventh birthday, orphan Harry Potter learns the shocking truth: he's a wizard about to begin his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry can't wait to return for his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, until a house elf named Dobby warns him of terrible danger ahead. When students start turning to stone — and Harry is a prime suspect — the boy wizard must figure out what's really going on at Hogwarts.
Born a Crime
This memoir recounts Noah's childhood in South Africa during the last years of apartheid.