The alternative way to the potions NEWT

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No: HPFGUIDX 87715

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:

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> 
> In OotP it was made clear that OWLs and NEWTs are conducted by the 
> MoM, not by the Hogwarts teachers. Do you have to be in the
official 
> NEWT class in order to take the NEWT? Perhaps not, especially if
the 
> headmaster and deputy are both on your side.
> 
> Neri

Sue B:

No reason why not. In our world you can do school or univeristy 
courses by correspondence, and many people in remote areas or who
have 
to work full time do just that, so why not privately-conducted
lessons 
in the WW? It's like our VCE here, exams conducted outside the school 
system. And Hermione would help - assuming you could get a kid like 
Harry to do extra homework! :-) Let's face it, he's only going to do 
that when he absolutely has to, judging by his behaviour in previous 
novels. He'd have the time off to go to the library, with one less 
classroom subject, but if he's anything like the kids I work with,
who 
are pretty normal, he'd waste most of his spare time. No doubt, he'd 
end up driving McGonagall nuts. "What do you mean you haven't
finished 
the work? Mr Potter, I have just spent an entire day in the classroom 
and am giving up my time to do this for you and you've
been *practising Quidditch*? Yes, I want Gryffindor to win, but this 
is your study, Mr Potter!" After a time, she might even start to see 
Snape's point. Also  I suspect that she said that about coaching him 
basically to get one up on Umbridge. She'd do it if asked, but 
reluctantly - Snape is her colleague, after all, and she has to go on 
working with him. How would it look?