Sport in year 7 (was Time line Question)

[dfrankiswork at netscape.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 23306

Catherine wrote:

>This [Charlie concentrating on studies in year 7] makes sense to me.  Without getting into the timeline thing, the 
>comment about students not playing for the house team in their final 
>year does seem reasonable, considering they have the dreaded 
>N.E.W.T.s to contend with.

It does seem reasonable, and maybe reason will one day penetrate the bastions of our academic institutions where sport is concerned.  I don't recall people being encouraged to give up playing for school or college teams just because they had a few career-defining exams.  At Oxford we had the phenomenon called the 'Rowing Third', i.e. a poor degree due to four or five afternoons a week spent on the river in the weeks running up to finals.

Hogwarts may be an exception - Minerva McGonagall would surely try to make it so - but so far I don't see it. Flint was playing even when doing retakes.

David



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