CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 31, O.W.L.s

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> 2. If DD is about 150 years old, then how old is Professor
>    Marchbanks? She examined DD maybe over 130 years ago, 
>    and she should have been a grown wizard by then, right?

Well, it's not so surprising that she'd be 180-200 years old.  After
all, Dumbledore, old as he is, is still quite vigorous and powerful;
Professor Marchbanks has aged to the point that she'd getting tottery
and frail.

> 3. Will Harry get enough OWLS to continue his career as 
>    an Auror?

Actually, I think he will.  I think he underestimates his grades
generally, and I also think it's not necessary to get a *perfect*
grade on an OWL to achieve Outstanding.  I think this just leaves room
for him to squeak into Snape's NEWT potions class (I hope so, too).

> 4. If Fred and George only got about 3 OWLS each, what 
>    classes did they have during their 6th and 7th year?
>    Only 3 classes?

Let's see...Herbology, Charms, and DADA. Here's what the book says: in
Ch. 12 they mention trying to sell extendable ears before Herbology.
In Ch. 15 they say Umbridge had inspected their Charms class. And back
in Ch. 9 they apparate into Ron and Harry's room wondering who'd set
the Slinkhard book, and in Ch. 25 Lee Jordan gets detention from
Umbridge because he points out to her that under the most recent
Decree, she couldn't tell off F&G for playing Exploding Snap in the
back of class, so they had DADA. That's all I could find.

That's really not enough classes to fill a week, though; you suppose
Hogwarts has some "vocational" type classes you don't need to have
passed an OWL for, or do they just have a very light schedule?  I'm
not surprised they don't have Potions; they arent' likely to have got
an O in their OWL, though they may well have passed, and I'm sure they
could do their own research as they needed it.

> 5. How could the Trio teach Grawp how to speak if he's
>    so violent they can't even get close to him?

Well, they never actually had to, because Hagrid was still there until
Wednesday on the second week of OWLs.  I suppose what they would have
done was to call to him from just out of his reach, since he had been
tied up.  After the MoM battle, Grawp was loose, and the Trio
recovering from the battle, so I'm sure they stayed out of the Forest
the rest of term.

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