Classes *After* Exams or Another Flint?

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No: HPFGUIDX 22798

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:
 
> Ron & Hermione were taking exams in the week or so before the 3rd 
Task
> -- they definitely had a History of Magic exam on the day of the 3rd
> Task.  Why then are there still classes going on after the 3rd Task?

Hi Penny - 

I  may actually have a real life answer to this one.  Here in NYC,m 
high school students take class exams and then state exams (called 
Regents and RCTs).  After all the exams are over, there are still 
several days of school left that teachers use to clean up, have staff 
parties and so on.  I believe that students are, technically, supposed 
to attend on one or two of those days, but they do not.  I could be 
wrong about that, but that extra day or two can be for students to 
find out exam grades, pick up projects, clean out lockers, etc.


Maybe those last few days of classes at Hogwarts are for exam results 
and review, and possibly to get summer assignments (remember Harry's 
essay at the beginning of PoA?).  

That could justify what JKR wrote, but really, Penny, I think it's a 
Flint.  I noticed it too.

--jenny from ravenclaw***********************************