Flitwick as DADA professor?

[jennivirides]

No: HPFGUIDX 90911

JustCarol said:
> 
> >
> > I was rereading OoP last night and realized that the teacher 
giving
> > the DADA exam to Severus and MWPP in "Snape's Worst Memory" was
> > Professor Flitwick! If he was the DADA professor twenty-one years
> > earlier, why is he teaching Charms now? Granted, he seems much 
more
> > suited to teach Charms than DADA, but still, why the annual 
search for
> > a DADA professor (setting aside the possibility that Snape could 
teach
> > it) when Flitwick is still available? Why not give the position 
back
> > to Flitwick and find another qualified Charms teacher? That would
> > almost certainly be easier than finding a good DADA teacher 
(other
> > than Lupin), which seems to be nearly impossible.

Coming out of lurkdom to answer this question, as no one else seems 
to be doing so.

Maybe this is a British thing again, but I always viewed the OWLs as 
being the equivalent to GCSEs, or O-levels as were, and I know I'm 
not the only one. In GCSE and A-level exams, the teachers who 
moderate the exam - say 'you may start the exam now', walk up and 
down the tables and so on - are rarely the same teachers that teach 
the subject. In fact (though I don't think it's a requirement of the 
exam boards) many schools don't let teachers moderate exams in their 
own subjects, for fear of cheating I suppose.

So I really don't think there's any evidence here that Flitwick was 
DADA teacher, and I doubt JK Rowling intended it to appear that way. 
Of course, I'm always open to being proved wrong. :)

Dessie, going back to lurking.