Fifth Years/OWLS

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 134081

Cathy wrote:
> I've been wondering what will happen to the current years' fifth
years (Ginny's) class..

~Prep0strus said: "I'm also curious - what's the deal with prefect
assignments?  Are they
only assigned every three years?  Are there prefects in every class 5
and up?  It doesn't seem to be that way, because I can't imagine Ginny
wouldn't be prefect - if Ron can do it, Ginny sure can."

Oh, I never thought of that.  I've been bothered by a Wrackspurt lately and
can't remember that Ginny is in 5th year...I kept thinking she was still in
4th...until the talk of studying for owls near the end of the book.


Meliss9900 said: "Yes they did. Read a little further.

The White Tomb

Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were spending all of their time together. The
beautiful weather seemed to mock them; Harry could imagine how it would have
been if
Durnbledore had not died, and they had had this time together at the very
end of
the year, Ginny's examinations finished, the pressure of homework lifted ...
and hour by hour,
he put off saying the thing that he knew he must say, doing what he knew it
was right to do, because it was too hard to forgo his best source of
comfort."

This is HP *imagining* what it would be like *had Dumbledore not died*.  If
DD had not died, Ginny's exams would be finished, they would have no more
homework, just be sitting around waiting for the train....instead, we have,
as Geoff pointed out:

"'All lessons were suspended, all examinations postponed. Some
students were hurried away from Hogwarts by their parents over the
next couple of days - '

(HBP "The White Tomb" p.590 UK edition)"

While they still have no homework, instead they're sitting around waiting
for a funeral and then the train to take them all home.

CathyD
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