[HPforGrownups] Re: Krum, Quidditch, NEWTs, Fleur, and More

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 49764

  Greetings!

> Maria wrote:

MK> Many people seem to take for granted two things:
MK> that education in Beauxbatons and Durmstrang lasts seven
MK> years like in Hogwarts, and that they have OWLs and
MK> NEWTs there too.
MK> I don't recall this being said in canon. Different
MK> Muggle countries have different education systems, and
MK> probably the same goes for the WW.
MK> Maybe I'm wrong and it's in canon? Then I'd like it if
MK> someone showed references to it.

  No such things in canon. We might freely assume education
systems in the three schools are quite different, though
still similar in many respects.

  I would expect Beauxbatons and Durmstrang to have some
analog of NEWT's, but I will not bet my last penny that they
have analog of OWL's as well.

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed,
great supporter of McGonagall/Crookshanks SHIP.

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