OoP: OWL/NEWT Question

[Michael Wong]

No: HPFGUIDX 64081

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> What are they going to do their seventh year?  If OWLs are fifth 
year and 
> NEWTs are sixth year, what is the point of seventh year at all?  
I've been trying 
> to figure it out since I read OoP.  Is it more of an independent 
study year?  
> Do they focus more on subjects they'll need for their careers?  
Sorry if this 
> has been asked, but as everyone else in the group, I'm swamped with 
e-mails 
> and I'm deleting half of them without even looking at them (unless 
they're 
> about Snape, in which case I read them!).
> 
> ~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~
> 
> "What's the Spanish word for caliente?"
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

NEWTS are in Seventh year, just go back to passages about Percy in 
book 3 and also passages about 5th and 7th years studying (Fred and 
George Sciving) in book 5!  cheers, happy hunting!