Flitwick as DADA professor?

[dorapye]

No: HPFGUIDX 90931

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Silverthorne Dragon" 
<silverthorne.dragon at v...> wrote:
> 
> Well, when I was in highschool (age 13-17), we had the SAT's 
(Standard
> Aptititude Tests), which I sort of see as being the same thing 
(only ours
> seem to happen every year, although I might be misremembering--
it's been
> over 14 years since my last one). From what a friend from the UK 
told me,
> they are very similar in use and function to the UK's GCSE's, and, 
like
> them, when I took them we were typically moved to a cafeteria or 
large
> conference type room to be given the test, and it was usualy over-
looked by
> teachers (or maybe government officials) that we did not know or 
recognize.
> The reasoning, I presume, as you say,  was to keep the testing 
as 'honest'
> as possible....

dorapye:
I always assumed that Flitick in the Pensieve scene is just the 
invigilator of he exam, not the "examiner" as provided by The 
Ministry, as it is a written exam. I checked back in OotP, and on 
p627 of the UK edition, we have McGonagall invigilating a Charms 
exam (Harry's first OWL):

'...the four house tables had been removed and replaced instead with 
many tables for one, all facing the staff-table end of the Hall 
where Professor McGonagall stood facing them. When they were all 
seated and quiet, she said, "You may begin," and turned over an 
enormous hour glass on the desk beside her, on which there were also 
spare quills, ink bottles and rolls of parchment.'
 
So,IMO, Flitwick is just supervising the exam, not actually 
responsible for marking it, and therefore neither Ministry examiner 
nor DADA professor....not sure it rules either possibility out, just 
that these are the conclusions I have made and they seem to fit with 
canon...
 
This fits with other people's ideas, yes?

dorapye