All the possible OWLS - Who got what?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 126206


Fitzov wrote:
> Has anyone considered the possibility that Harry fails Defence
against the Dark Arts?  I have long held the suspicion that the 'nasty
smile playing on Umbridge's lips' as Harry leaves the DADA exam, means
that she has just intervened to fail him.  Possibly she placed the
examiner under an Imperious curse?
>  
> If Harry does fail, then I am willing to guess that there is no
justice in the Magical World that would enable Harry's mark to be
reinstated.  This would entirely mess up his future career as an Auror.

Carol responds:
I've always thought of DADA as a required course for students at all
levels regardless of their performance in earlier years. It seems to
be essential for survival in the WW, particularly in a time of danger
like the pending VW2.

But if there is such a course as NEWT DADA for which only the best
students qualify, admission would almost certainly be based on OWL
scores, not course marks. And if the new DADA teacher tried to block
Harry from entering, McGonagall would come to his defense as his Head
of House and assistant headmistress, pointing out that he received
high marks in all the DADA exams "set by competent instructors"
(quoting from memory here). In the unlikely event that any new
instructor faced with an angry McGonagall would or could stand his
ground against her, she could always get Dumbledore to back her up. If
the DADA instructor wants to keep his job, he's not going to take him
to court over a single student's eligibity to take his class.

I very much doubt that the need for a grade appeal will arise, but if
it does, Madam Bones knows that Harry can cast a corporeal patronus,
which pretty much seals the argument as to whether he belongs in NEWT
DADA (if such a course even exists).

Carol, who fully expects to see Harry as an auror in the epilogue to
Book 7