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

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106347


I, Del, wrote : 
> "Nobody else was given a chance to grab extra points in their DADA 
> OWL by producing a Patronus, 

Cathy Drolet answered : 
> *We* know but do any of the teachers know?  Maybe only DA members 
> know that others can also produce a Patronus? 

Del replies :
I'm of the opinion that only the DA members know that Cho and Hermione
can produce a Patronus. I hardly see how that information could have
reached the teachers, much less the examiners.

But in a way, it only makes things worse :-) A school examination is
specifically aimed at testing students on the curriculum, not on what
they might have learned otherwise. So favouring one specific student
because the examiner happens to know what this student knows on top of
the curriculum is particularly unfair towards the other students who
have learned other things out of class but whose accomplishments have
not been made public.

But as I said, I don't care in this particular case, because it was
worth it, just to bother Umbridge and Draco :-)

Del