[HPforGrownups] Re: OotP: O.W.L.'s

[Muridae]

No: HPFGUIDX 63224

hermiawoods wrote:

>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Michael Guenther"
><mguenthe at c...> wrote:
>> The thing that frustrated me the most was not knowing what the
>crew's grades on
>> their O.W.L's were.
>I thought it odd that in this book they're told they won't receive
>their OWLs until July, when at the end of PoA we hear that the twins
>scraped a few OWL's each and Percy got his top NEWTs, and THEN they
>all get on the train home.

Actually, this is a more likely scenario than the exam results at the 
end of PoA before term ends, simply because those external examiners 
have got a lot of papers to mark - and they may well have to 
mark/compare them against the papers for the other Wizarding schools, to 
ensure that all students are being marked to the same standard.

Muggle schools in the UK wouldn't actually get their corresponding 
results until August. But I'm guessing that Harry and co will get theirs 
in July because that's when we'll pick up Harry's summer at home in 
Little Whinging, before he makes his ritual escape to somewhere more 
interesting for the rest of the holiday. *g*

-- 
Muridae