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

[justcarol67]

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annemehr wrote:

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).

Carol sneaks in an "I agree."

annemehr wrote: 
> > 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.

Carol responds:
I wonder if DADA is a required class for all students. In that case,
the Twins could have taken Transfiguration as well as the three
classes you mentioned without necessarily getting an OWL in that
subject. It seems to me that Charms, Potions, and Transfiguration
would be the classes most useful for their joke shop, and we know that
Fred, at least, displayed a talent for Transfiguration through
wandless accidental magic when he was all of five. It's also possible,
as other posters have suggested, that their three OWLs apiece were in
different subjects. Maybe George got one in Herbology, Fred got one in
Potions, and they both got one in Potions and DADA. It's a safe bet,
however, that neither of them got an OWL in Astronomy, Divination, or
History of Magic.

Carol