Colin Greevy and Social Promotion

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 93137

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kimberly" <ekrbdg at m...> wrote:
> 
>    
>   >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.    

Meri adds: 
Everyone's exams were cancelled at the CoS celebration feast as a 
school treat, so I am assuming that, with the exception of the fifth 
year OWLS and the seventh year NEWTS, nobody had to take exams to 
pass to next year. Colin does, after all have six more years left at 
the school to catch up what he missed. And Hermione's schooling 
didn't seem to suffer much, though she's not the best example. 
Meri