Flitwick as DADA professor?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 91030

> 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?

Carol:
Interesting observation. I've never heard the term "invigilating"--we
call it "proctoring" in the U.S.--but it does look as if the
professors supervise the OWLs for other professor's classes--
McGonagall proctors the written portion of the Charms OWL for Flitwick
in Harry's fifth year; Flitwick proctors the written portion of the
DADA OWL for whoever the DADA professor was at that time; a Ministry
official administers (and grades) the practical portion of the OWLs in
those subjects and all the others with a practical component. So the
only question is who grades the written portion of the OWLs? Probably
not the teacher in charge of the class since it appears that the whole
idea of the OWLs is to get an objective (and expert) second opinion
and to remove the teacher from even supervisory duties to prevent
subjectivity from entering into the grading.

To get back to Flitwick: I guess that destroys my theory that he's
qualified to teach DADA. He was probably the Charms professor for MWPP
and Snape just as he is for HRH.

Carol