O.W.L.s & grades (FF references)

[dzeytoun]

No: HPFGUIDX 101827

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> OK what will it be?
> Harry gets an O: Suspence is over
> Harry doesn't get an O. Several more chapters of suspence.
> 
> Will Snape be made to let him in by DD or by some compromise? 
(Draco 
> doesn't get an E and needs it for Transfiguration for example) 
> (Snape lets him into Potions if he does not rejoin the Quidditch 
> team)Personally, I think it goes against what we see of DD for him 
> to force Snape to let Harry in.  Nor, IMO, did he make Snape pass 
> Harry.
> 
> Will Harry have to take remedial potions for real before re-taking 
> OWLS in the summer?  
> 
> Will Snape be teaching a different subject or no subject?
> 
> Will Harry have to face the music and look to a different career?
> 
> Has Jo thought of something I haven't?
> 
> 

Well, now that I think of it, there is another major possibility.
We should remember that the whole potions/auror question arose BEFORE 
the events at the MoM.  By the end of OOTP, things had changed 
markedly.  Harry now knows about the prophecy, has suffered the 
trauma of Sirius' death, and his feelings for Snape have shifted from 
total enmity to something approaching glacial hatred.  All of this 
will definitely have an impact.

In several recent fanfics Harry is shown, I think very plausibly, as 
not caring anymore about the potions class, regardless of how he does 
on his OWL.  He tends to have the attitude that "I will not have 
anything more to do with that @#@!!#, not in Occlumency and not in 
Potions.  I don't care if it means I can't be an auror and, in fact, 
if I survive to see the end of Voldemort I never want to be bothered 
by dark magic or responsbility to the wizarding world again."

Another very believable outcome featured in recent fanfics is that 
both Snape and Harry refuse to have anything to do with one another, 
regardless of what grade Harry gets on his OWL.  The powers that be 
(i.e. Dumbledore and McGonagall) decide that, however desirable it 
may be for Snape and Harry to bury the hatchet, for the time being it 
is best for everyone's sanity and survival to keep them apart and 
reasonably mollified.  Therefore Snape is assured that he will not 
have to accept anyone into Advanced Potions against his will, and 
Harry is offered the option of studying independently (or under an 
acceptable mentor) for his Potions NEWT.

Dzeytoun