OOP: Why OWLs aren't FLINTs!

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No: HPFGUIDX 65671

If I remember correctly, Mrs weasly found Fred & Georges result of 3 
OWLs absolutely horrible. she seemed very disapointed by it.

But F&G never wanted good results, did they? At the time of their 
OWLs, they had allready decided what they anted to do after leaving, 
and so didn't bother to study, or even try very hard during exams.

I think you can get 2 OWLs in everysubject (one practical, one 
theorethical) which means Hermione might end up getting 20 OWLs I 
suppose.

My own personla theory that noone seems to agree with is that 
Hermione will end up as Headmistress at Hogwarts some day. 

Varana


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alon van Dam" 
<alanphoenix1 at h...> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> This is just a short post to give a possible explanation to the 
> alleged FLINT concerning the OWLs 
> 
> For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: Quite a 
> number of us noticed while reading OOP that Hermione is 'only' 
taking 
> 10 classes, and that Percy and Bill got 12 OWLs each. Poster Marie 
> Granger wrote an excellent post about it on the 23rd or 24th. We 
were 
> wondering whether it's JK's numerics or whether something else is 
up. 
> I have a /possible/ explanation, which I came to when rereading the 
> first 1/3rd of the book earlier:
> 
> When McGonnagall is explaining about the OWLs early in the book, 
she 
> states that they will have to take two OWL-tests per subject: One 
> theoretical and one practical. I'll look up the exact quote later, 
> but it /might/ mean that they can get two OWLs per subject, in 
which 
> case 12 OWLs is something which I'm sure Hermione surpassed: But 
I'm 
> pretty sure that Hermione should get the highest amount of OWLs in 
> ten years or so. She'd deserve it.
> 
> On the downside of this theory: What does it mean that Fred and 
> George only got 3 OWLs? If you can get one OWL per subject, that's 
> really bad, if you can get two, it's beyond horrid. 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Just my two knuts,
> Alon