[the_old_crowd] W.O.M.B.A.T.S

[Kathy King]

rebecca:

I was particularly interested in the "what would you do, when, and who would
you call" questions.  Leads me to wonder just how much Harry is going "bend
the rules" of the Ministry in the final book, all in the interest of doing
what is right for the greater good of all.



Snow:



I was curious as well on this subject point but more so on how you would
grade a question that began with " in your opinion". This was the most
puzzling aspect of the test for me. If a question can't actually be graded
because everyone is entitled to their own opinion, then why ask the
question?



Rebecca:



Maybe she's trying to find out what "we", her readers, know about the
universe she's created - having a interactive dialog (of sorts)  like this
saves on some writing time - what she covers on the WOMBATS with readers
before the final book means she only needs to loosely refer to relative
knowledge from this test in Book 7,  if she has a need to.



Snow:



Seems like a perfectly logical conclusion to me.



This test reminds me of the one I had taken in the shopping mall when you
are asked all types of questions about what brand of cigarette you smoke
when the survey was actually for beer (they did slide one single question
about alcohol into the survey but the main drift was about your cigarette
brand). Made little sense to me at the time but I suppose they aimed their
advertising at the smokers if the majority of the surveyed also said that
they drank.



If this test is similar to the mall questionnaire then there was only one
question out of all that was important to the data collected.


This has to be one of those questions in the end that Jo is asked about…
What did you intend on learning, if anything, from your WOMBAT test?


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