Umbridge's Great Success as a DADA Teacher

[mtwelovett]

No: HPFGUIDX 77206

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vivamus42" <YahooGroups at T...>
Vivamus wrote:
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> 
> What I'm wondering is, even though she did nothing in class but tell 
> them to read a textbook which was obviously on NOT doing DADA, the 
> Prophet said that she was revolutionizing the subject, and the 
> students in her class probably did better on their OWLs than students 
> have in many years.  All as a result of Harry and the DA, of course, 
> but that won't be public knowledge.
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Well, Dumbledore is back in charge now, and He knows about the DA, and
that it was to learn DADA, so he'll be able to put two and two
together even if it were only a handful of students (and he has that
list). Anyone in Harry's year that wasn't also in the DA probably
learned from Luin and "fake" Moody as well. So they may not be as bad
off as one might think. Are general scores on the OWLS public
knowledge anyway? Hogwarts uses them to determine if you're ready for
more advanced classes, and each student knows their scores but would
say, the Daily Prophet have any general acces to that information?
(DADA scores were up 30% over last year at Hogwarts or something like
that....) so where they may have been stronger in theory of DADA
having to read the text for Umbridge, it may not translate to higher
scores. Not to mention, were they retaining what they were *supposed*
to be reading for her, or were they simply staring at the page for an
hour or so?

Mtwelovett