OOP: Hermione's Career (was: OOP: Why OWLs aren't FLINTs!)

[jsmithqwert]

No: HPFGUIDX 66290

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermiawoods" 
<hermiawoods at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alon van Dam" 
> <alanphoenix1 at h...> wrote:
> <snip>> > I think you can get 2 OWLs in everysubject (one 
practical, 
> one 
> > > theorethical) which means Hermione might end up getting 20 OWLs 
I 
> > > suppose.
> <snip>
> 
> One little thing -- I seem to remember that there was *only* a 
> written exam for History of Magic, and I wonder if there was a 
> written exam for CoMC? I don't remember one being mentioned. 
Anyway, 
> I wonder what the top number of possible OWLs is in Hogwarts 
history? 
> I'm sure our lovely Ms. Granger is up for about as many as anyone, 
> but I don't think 20 is possible.

My impression from OoP and the (exhausting, but wonderful) posts here 
is that of the 6 "core" (five year) OWL subjects (i.e. astronomy, 
herbology, potions, charms, transfiguration, and history of magic), 
all but History of Magic has both a theoretical and a practical 
exam.  Therefore, it is possible to "earn" 11 OWLs in "core" 
subjects.  In the "elective" courses (arithmancy, care of magical 
creatures, divination, ancient runes, muggle studies, and any others 
if there are more) there seems to be only one exam given.  So the 
maxium possible, with a full course load like Hermeione's, is 14 (the 
11 "core" OWLs plus 3 "elective" OWLs" (assuming that there are not 
covert "electives" that have never been mentioned).  According to 
this logic, the maxium for Ron and Harry would be 13, but I am pretty 
sure that they both failed divination and, probably, history of magic.