Disrupted NEWTs and OWLs (Was: MM as leader, Harry at Hogwarts)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 148973

Lupinlore:
*(snip)*
> > Of course, if Harry were to return for a seventh year, what about
> NEWTS?  I can't see him wasting the time.  Of course NEWTS may be 
> cancelled for the duration -- such academic adjustments to wartime
> have ample precedent.  

Carol responds:
*(snip)*
> Regarding NEWTs--and OWLs: I know this seems like a minor concern, 
but
> the students who were in their fifth or seventh year in HBP, 
including
> Ginny and Luna, were unable to take their exams because DD's death
> disrupted everything. Many stayed in school long enough to attend 
his
> funeral, but the exams weren't held. Any ideas as to what will 
happen
> to these students? The fifth years could take their OWLs at the
> beginning of their sixth year if Hogwarts remains open, but they 
will
> have lost about three months of study time (DD is killed near the
> beginning of June--incidentally, very close to Draco's seventeenth
> birthday on June 5), so they'll be at a disadvantage, and the 
seventh
> years won't be returning at all, so special arrangements would have 
to
> be made for them.

Ceridwen:
I think that arrangements could be made for these students to take 
their exams at the MoM or another suitable WW location during the 
summer.  And, some may have already taken their exams by the end of 
the book.  Students had been pulled out of the school before 
Dumbledore's funeral, and accomodations would have had to be made for 
them if not for anyone else.  If Lupinlore is correct and testing is 
suspended for the duration, then perhaps the exams will be available 
on a voluntary basis until the emergency passes.

Ceridwen.