Patronus at DADA OWL (was Re: Harry's Future...)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106329

cincimaelder wrote:
> when he did his DADA O.W.L, again the tester seemed very impressed 
> (and gave him bonus points) for producing a corporeal Patronus and he
> did it without a dementor around that time. 

Del replies :
Irk :-) !
That one made *my* temper rise when I first read it. The examiner gave
Harry bonus points for something that other students knew how to do as
well, but he didn't ask *them* !!

It's just like when Hermione answers a teacher's question without
letting anyone else a chance to answer (I think it was in CoMC with
Grubbly-Plank) and gets points for that. OK, granted we know that
usually nobody else ever volunteers answers anyway, but the point is
that nobody else had a *chance* to grab those points and Grubbly-Plank
didn't seem to care about that.

Nobody else was given a chance to grab extra points in their DADA OWL
by producing a Patronus, even though we know that at least 2 other
students are able to do it. They probably don't need extra points to
grab an O in the OWL, but then neither does Harry.

It just all smacks of favouritism. 

And then of course I looked at the details, and I understood why it
all happened, what was behind it. Professor Tofty, the examiner, says
that he's an old friend of Tiberius Ogden. We know that Tiberius Ogden
was one of the 2 members of the Wizengamot who resigned when Umbridge
was appointed High Inquisitor (interestingly enough, the other one was
Griselda Marchbanks, who happens to be another one of the examiners,
their leader even. Makes me wonder who appoints the examiners ??). And
finally, we know that Umbridge was in the room while Harry was taking
his DADA OWL (isn't that against the rules, by the way ??). So it
seems pretty obvious to me that Prof. Tofty was trying to kill 2 birds
with one stone : give Harry some well-needed emotional support, and
bug Umbridge to no end. Go, Tofty, go !

It still smacks of favouritism, but my only regret is that we don't
get to see Malfoy's face when he learns of that little incident :-D !

Del