Minerva McGonagall--DD's Right-Hand Woman or Truly a Secondary Character?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 115473


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> 
> SSSusan:
> That's an interesting point....  Somehow I was envisioning her 
> helping him in year 6, if necessary, if he did poorly on OWLs. But 
> you're right that he had to pass those first to move on.  How close 
> to OWL time was the career counseling session wherein MM said 
this?  
> I'm thinking it was getting far into the school year and not far 
away 
> from the exams, but I'm away from books/notes and may be wrong....

Geoff:
Reasonably close...

'CAREERS ADVICE
All fifth-years are required to attend a short meeting with their 
Head of House during the first week of the summer term to discuss 
their future careers. Times of individual appointments are listed 
below.'

(OOTP "Careers Advice" p.578 UK edition)

If Hogwarts follows the pattern of UK schools in returning a week or 
so after Easter, then depending on when Easter fell in 1996, the 
interviews would be somewhere between the end of March and perhaps 
the third week in April.

Geoff
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