[HPforGrownups] Colin Greevy and Social Promotion

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 93134


   
  >From: Robert Jones 
   >Here in New York City, there is a big argument right now 
  >about "social promotion" of failing students, and since I am 
  >rereading COS I thought of Colin Creevy.  He was a first-year who 
  >got petrified early in the school year and unpetrified only at the 
  >end of the year, and yet in POA he is in year two.  Shouldn't he 
  >have had to repeat the first year? 


  (Kimberly's comments)
  I went and re-read the material surrounding this.   It doesn't seem to have been very early in the year.   It was after the death day party which was Halloween.    It was also just before the second week of December.   That puts his petrification just about the end of November I'd say.    There is no mention of end of the year exams either.   The only thing I could find is that they cancelled DADA for the rest of the year but it was late in the year that it was cancelled.    Maybe he had to make-up lessons over the Summer ?   I doubt there's "Summer school" but it's possible he had to do work over the Summer to start PoA as a second year student.    


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