How many owls do you think Harry, Ron and Hermione got??

I mean we know Harry won't get Astronomy (Hagrids attack), History of Magic ( the Dream) Divination ("you should've died last Tuesday") and Potions (we all know that!)

What do you think??

I kind of thought that Harry would get Potions. I mean that way they could keep Snape in the story more. And also Harry was more relaxed during the exams. He only made one mistake, didn't he?

I think Ron will fail Potions though. I really can't see him doing any job... This reminds me of a post in the book six thoeries section. It says something like "Ron will become a sort of tester for Fred and George's joke shop" That would be so funny...

Poor Ron!

lol. That'd suck for Ronald Weasely

I think Ron will end being successful at some type of job, but I don't think he's going to be auror. And I think it's a possiblity that Harry could get an O.W.L in potions. He is much better at potions when Snape isn't breathing down his neck.

Yeah, I agree that Harry will get all of the O.W.L.'s he needs to be an Auror. The real question is "Will he get all of his N.E.W.T.'s in seventh year?" lol.

Hermione's obvious, she'll get all of her O.W.L.'s. I just want to know what she picked! My guess is she chose to become an Unspeakable, I'd imagine you'd have to be highly qualified to work in the Department of Mysteries.

As for Ron, I think he'd have said he wanted to be an Auror, but there's no doubt that if he DID say it, McGonagall advised him otherwise. His career choice is baffling me more than Hermione's. HAHA! For opposite reasons, too! Ron's not good at very many school subjects, and Hermione's good at all of them! Quite funny, really...

Yeah maybe Harry will get his potions owl. They won't get divination though.

It is a very good idea of Hermione becoming an unspeakable.

I don't see why Ron wouldn't become an Auror. At the risk of sounding like a teacher, the only thing stopping Ron is that he doesn't seem to apply himself....if he actually tried, I think he'd be fine

Yeah I can see Harry and Ron being Aurors with Hermione as an unspeakable with them all wearing lurid shirts with S.P.E.W on them.
Just joking. No they have those careers just cut the SPEW thing.

Hey, is it just me, or whenever you see the word S.P.E.W. you say it like spew. Like Ron. Just wanted to know. When I first read GoF that was always so funny to me...

You are kind of meant to say it as spew because it adds a comical element to the very nasty habit of mistreating little House Elves.

I still think its hilarious!

maybe hermione will go on and start a NEW department in the ministry like, The Department for the Protection of Mistreated Creatures and Halfbloods. lol, that way she can help the elves, and werewolves, and whatever else she can think of!

I know that Hermoine will get all her O.W.L.S. Harry won't get back all of his, but most. Ron, not too sure...


archangel- I would not be surprised at all if Hermoine did that! Of course I can't see it being too successful...

I also say it like spew. x_x It takes too much time to say S-P-E-W!!

Hermione whilst being clever is probably going to dedicate her life to the protection of elfish 'persons' and of course everyone except her will think that she's hilarious and laugh behind her back (like me!)

oh yeah and i also pronounce it like "spew". actually i do that with all abbreviations or whatever you call it. like lol. i pronounce it like "lawl". does anyone else do that?

I think Hermione will be the brightest student for like 100 years or something. Or 100 years EXCLUDING Lord Voldemort. He may be dark, but as Albus says, he was bright and is really smart, intelligient. He must've learned a lot as a kid, right?

im sure he did. i wonder what he was like in school? was he a malfoy or a snape?

Archangel- did you mean O.W.L.?
Because I say owl and newt too. Takes too much brain power to say the other...

I think Hermy will do some spew stuff. While working in the ministry with Harry. And still have time to come home to dear Ron after his long hard day of toungue-ton-taffe testing. lol poor ron

Erin G.-what do you mean, what do i mean? i dont think i said anythign about an O.W.L.?


ohhh, nm, you mean about "lawl", right? no i was talking about how i pronounce LOL like "LAWL", instead of L-O-L, you know what i mean? does anyone else do that? or is it jsut me?

Ummm a little confused.... anyway Harry will perhaps get all of his owls due to some trumped up decree by DD to make Harry able to become an Auror. It wouldn't be the first time DD has done something that was controversial or rule bending....

harry's not a bad student, im sure he'll do all right. remember, he did do well in potions, when he didnt have snape breathing donw his neck.

i bet hermione will break som kind of record with her owls thouhg.

Hermione will probably get more owls than Percy. Maybe.. It is very likely that she will at least equal 12

Ohhh. I get it. Wow, I can't read...

Anyway, how many classes does Hermy actually take?

i dunno...probly jsut enouhg so she doesnt need a time-turner...

I think she takes

Arithmancy
Ancient Runes
Care of Magical Creatures

as well as all the standard ones..

Anyone know any others?

what about astronomy? or astrology? whats the difference again? what does prof. sinistra teach? ive heard him mentioned a lot, but i dont know anyone who has him as a teacher....maybe he'll be important later? one of those "just passing by, dont notice me" then look, hes important, a death eater, the half-blood prince, didnt see that coming!

Astronomy is looking at stars etc. Astrology is reading peoples stars! I think! anyway Hermione will break some school record or something??

Hee He Hee. For some reason I thought prof. sinistra was a girl. Oh well...lol I'm so retarded...

Yeah, Hermy could get an award. But I thought Tom had 12 owls. So wouldn't that mean he took 12 classes?

Maybe he had a time turner...just j/k honestly I am....Maybe Hermione will eventually drop the whole SPEW thing and go even bigger.Maybe she'll work Ministry of Magic, Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures; Beast, Being and Spirit Division, and do a whole thing on werewolf segregation, or equality among all magical beings...(centaurs, werewolves etc...) I mean she was having a discussion with Lupin about how against segregation she is in OotP

actually, i thouhgt prof. sinistra was a girl for a long time, too, but i think jkr called him a "him" a couple times, althouhg im not positive....

i dont think hermione would work in "Control" of magical creatures, i think she'll start a new dept. i came up wiht a name before....

here's what i siad before, i dont really like it though....

The Department for the Protection of Mistreated Creatures and Halfbloods

That would be a pretty cool department to work in! (as long as Hermione isn't in charge of it!) I have no idea if Prof Sinistra is a girl boy so hereforth it is an it. Unless someone is clever enough to tell me to stop me from embarrasing myself!

i think that hermione will get all her owls and harry will get the one he needs but ron unfortuantely will probably not get enough owls to be an auror JKR is more creative than that... she won't make harry AND ron both aurors that's kind of boring she will find a better job for ron that suits him and the department thing for hermione is a really cool idea... you know IT COULD HAPPEN! one thing i don't get about owls is how do you GET owls... is it just if you pass or what? and is one owl for each class?

i think that hermione will pass with the most o.w.ls (obvously) harry will get enough to become an auror and ron will...erm... i think he will have enough to maybe teach something?

k, first of all, how do yoo get an owl?
is it like one for each subject you pass?
also,although this is really corny, i hope and think that all three, ron, harry, and hermione, will get all owls needed to become and auror
however, harry will die before he becomes one

i reckon the only thing harry will fail is diviation and ron too but hermoine will pass all hers

Harry will get a ton of DADA owls and Transfiguration owls and same as charms and Potions because he wants to be an Auror

Ron will get the same because he wants to be an Auror

Hermione will get Arithimancy and maybe the same as the others or more

I think Ron will die in book six or seven. So maybe it won't matter how many OWLs he gets.

Harry will get an O in DADA, no doubt about that. I bet he'll get an O in Charms, as well. And Care of Magical Creatures.

I bet he'll get an Acceptable in Potions, and for some reason or another, Snape will be forced to take him. I bet he'll be really upset about it, and McGonagall and Dumbledore will help him out. Hell, maybe Snape won't even be teaching Potions next year, maybe he'll take the DADA spot once and for all, and this McLaggan character will teach Potions and accept Harry.

He'll get an E in Transfiguration, I bet. He mentioned that that test went well. He'll get an E in Herbology

He'll fail History of Magic, Divination, and Astronomy.

Ron will pass History of Magic for some reason, I think, because it didn't mention anything he said about doing poorly. He'll also pass Transfiguration, Charms (though barely), Herbology, and Care of Magical Creatures. I dunno, that seems like he might end up working in the Ministry, doing something or other. But I think he's going to die, so his profession is irrelevant.

Hermione will pass all of hers of course.

Oh, and I noticed a lot of people asking. I think OWLs are like AP tests (which I don't know if you have outside of America). But you can get a score of 1-5. A score of 3,4, or 5 is passing, you get the AP credit and everything. A score or 1 or 2 is failing.

Outstanding, Exceeds Expectations, and Acceptable are passing OWLs. Poor and Dreadful are non-passing grades.

i think harry got an good mark for defense against the dark artss. he might ahve did not so bad for potions. well i think harry and ron migh ahve flunked the divinaton and the astronomy they must ahve flunked it because harry got busy in watching how hagrid was being attacked.

they will all get O in DADA obviously
i reckon harry will fail, history of magic, divination and astronomy
an O.W.L (i pronounce it owl, whatever its easier!) is when you get acceptable or above, meaning, acceptable, exceeds expectations and outstanding.
he will pass potions cuz we need snape!and he didnt do that bad
Hermione will pass everything obviously
i'm not sure about ron though...hmm....*ponders*

Hermione will get all her O.W.L.s... for sure!

Ron... he'll fail Diviation (He saw the man's reflection in the crystal ball and said he had an ugly wart, lol) and History of Magic...

Harry might fail Diviation and History of Magic... but might get extra points on DADA for his Patronus...

Oy vai (this is not netspeak, this is me making a sound of utter annoyance of myself) I forgot about Astronomy! Maybe Harry'll pass anyway... because Dumbledore might do something for him... because wat Umbridge was doing out at night...

I think Harry failed astronomy (because of Hagrid) History of Magic and definately divination.

Potions, Harry thought he did well in it. Knowing that he is 'Harry Potter' and that most people who read the Daily Prophet hate him it. But, the Longbottoms don't like what the Prophet say about Harry and that they are good friends with Griselda Marchbanks. She and Professor Tofty strike me as being highly biased towards Harry. I think that Harry will get and ok mark in it.

Don't have enough time to talk about the others, but he'll pass them I'm sure!

We all know Hermione is the smartest age of her time, or whatever everyone keeps repeating to her the only thing I can't figure out is how she is supposed to get 12 OWLs when she only takes 10 Subects.

The only Subjects offered to Students are.

Charms
Transfiguration
Potions
Defence against the Dark Arts
History of Magic
Herbology
Astronomy

Care of Magical Creatures
Divination
Muggle Studies
Ancient Runes
Arithmancy

We know this because these are Hermione's subjects in "Prisoner of Azkaban" and we know she elected to take all the subjects avaliable when they decided them in "Chamber of Secrets"

Chamber of Secrets; Pg.187 Hermione took nobody’s advice but signed up for everything.

All evidence points to the fact that you only have one OWL for each subject you take. And the fact that they are already graded on a slideing scale would indicate no matter how well you do you don't get extra OWLs.

Order of the Phoenix; Pg.209; "Moronic though some of the class undoubtedly are, I expect you to scrape an “Acceptable” in your OWL, or suffer my … displeasure."

Snape comments indicating there is only one OWL for Potions.

Order of the Phoenix; Pg. 219; "Isn't there a practical bit in our Defence against the Dark Arts OWL? Aren't we supposed to show that we can actually do the counter-curses and things?"

This last Quote indicates that there is ONE OWL made up of two sections, theory and practical, not one OWL for each section.

Order of the Phoenix; Pg.232; They then over an hour revising Summoning Charms, which according to Professor Flitwick were bound to come up in their OWL, and he rounded off the lesson by setting them their largest ever amount of Charms homework.

Order of the Phoenix; Pg.232; “You cannot pass an OWL,” said Professor McGonagall grimly,” without serious application, practise and study. I see no reason why everyone in this class should not achieve an OWL in Transfiguration as long as they put in the work.”

Again indicating that the is only one OWL for Transfiguration.

As we all know Charlie, Bill and Percy, along with Barty Couch Jr all got 12 OWLs, also Rowling has been Quoted as saying that 12 is the maximum number of OWLs one can recieve.

How on earth is Hermione supposed to live up to her reputation of being the smartest witch when she obviously only has 10 OWLs on offer after dropping Muggle Studies and Divination.

And how did the above mentioned students possibly get to there classes without the aid of a time-turner?

If only one OWL is on offer for each of the subject what I want to know is where are the other two mistery subjects that people take.

The only conclusion that I can come to is that JKR choose 12 as the number of maximum OWLs early in the series to describe the performances of Charlie and Bill because it "felt" like the right number. We all certainly know how she loves the number 12 as it is used more than any other number throughout the books.

My question to you is, how do you believe JKR is going to fudge her way out of this one? OR if it was intentional what could possibly account for the other two OWLs?

Harry’s Report Card

Defence against the Dark Arts “Outstanding”
Harry himself believes he has gotten an O and we all know how good he is at Defense against the Dart Arts. Also he did get a "bonus point" for his Patronus.

History of Magic “Poor”
He fell asleep during the exam and didn't even write much of a response to the first few questions. He also didn't go back to the exam when he woke up, understandably.

Charms “Exceeds Expectations”
Flitwick has been gradeing him in between A and E up untill the test, and believe it or not last minute cramming can help. Also I am assuming that Flitwick has similar standards for his NEWT classes, which would mean Harry needs an E to gain entry to them.

Potions “Exceeds Expectations”
Without Snape around he was more calm, and he himself said that while not doing well he might at least have scraped a pass. I tend to believe him in this case. Harry has never particularly paid attention to Potions but he did say his theory exam went really well, especially the questions on the Polyjuice Potion. Also technically with Snape's Expectations anything harry does would Exeed them j/k

Transfiguration “Exceeds Expectations”
Mcgonagall said she was grading him at an A level, and told him to work a little harder at it, she also said she only accepts E level students into her NEWT class. So I believe he might have managed this one.

Astronomy “Acceptable”
He did well on the written test, most likely and E and while he got three quarters of his star chart complete before the attack on Hagrid I still believe it would have been enough of a distraction to drag him down below and A.

Divination "Poor"
Because Divination is such a wooly subject we must assume that the standards of marking are not as high as other subjects, but harry does say he felt very badly about the test, and Ron says "well we were always going to fail that one" Ron has succeeded at being a prophet in the past, I tend to believe him.

Herbology “Exceeds Expectations”
Harry has never particularly shown any exceptional talent in this area, and we get no real indication of his marks beforehand. Also we don't get any indication that anything horrible happened in the test. However assuming that he should continue Herbology and most teacher seem to prefer E grades in there NEWT classes I decided to be generous here.

Care of Magical Creatures “Exceeds Expectations”
Harry does very well in this test, I might have given him an O however harry does not seem overly enthusiastic about it and Hagrid while nice isn't actually the best of teachers. As the testing is impartcial I gave Harry a high enough mark to continue the class at NEWT level, though Hagrid being the person he is might accept anyone who passes into his NEWT classes, I wouldn't put it passed him.

Harry got 7 OWLs by my count.

As to Hermione's and Rons scores we can say very little as all our information comes to us through harry. Needless to say however that Hermione passed everything she took and Ron definatly failed Divination.

Potions NEWT

Order of the Phoenix; Pg584; “And I must tell you that Professor Snape absolutely refuses to take students who get anything other than “Outstanding” in their OWLs, so -”

The fact that "Professor Snape refuses" and that other teachers have different standards seems to point that while Harry did not get the required O Snape may be convinced by Dumbledore and/or Mcgonagall to change the requirements for his class. I doubt we have seen the last of our beloved Potions Master.

Didn't JK say there was going to be a new potions professor. The new professor may except people with E or less...

Don't have reference so feel free to tear apart this post, or completely ignore it.

Unfortunatly no,

JKR has never said there was going to be a new potions master, and I doubt she will change her DADA pattern. But you never know, he may get the DADA possition and then he couldn't keep Harry out of that class not with his marks.

I do believe it is possible Snape will change his class requirements, I mean if he doesn't he is likely to be taking Advanced Potions with only Hermione in the class.

Also I doubt Draco got an "O" in potions and Snape will want to keep Malfoy Sr in his good books and if he bends the rules for one he will be forced to bend them for others.

What's bugging me the most is the two extra OWLs. I just can't seem to find any way in which Hermione will get 12 OWLs.

One theory of mine is that you may get extra OWLs for doing over 100%, we know you can score over 100%, Hermione got 300% in Muggle studies before she gave it up. Would that be 3 "O" OWLs??

Here's my predictions

Harry's O.W.L. Results

Charms: O
Transfiguration: E
Herbology: O
Defence Against the Dark Arts: O
Potions: O
Care of Magical Creatures: O
Astronomy: E
Divination: A
History of Magic: P

8 O.w.l.s in total

Ron's O.W.L. Results

Charms: E
Transfiguration: E
Herbology: O
Defence Against the Dark Arts: O
Potions: O
Care of Magical Creatures: O
Astronomy: E
Divination: A
History of Magic: A

9 O.w.l.s in total

Hermione O.W.L. Results

Charms: O
Transfiguration: O
Herbology: O
Defence Against the Dark Arts: O
Ancient Ruins
Potions: O
Arithmancy: O
Care of Magical Creatures: O
Astronomy: O
History of Magic: O

10 O.w.l.s in total


Charms is the first test all the students do and as such i think most of the students will do as much work for this one as is possible to do in the last few days before tests while ignoring the later ones (that's what I always do Thus Harry and Ron will probably do better than they thought. After all Harry seems to have done well in the theory and eventually manages to rectify the one mistake he mentions in the practical 'mixing up the incantations for Colour change and growth charms'. I believe Ron did not do as well as Harry in this one but i still think he would have done well in the theory but the inexplicable mutated mushroom from a plate will let him down. Hermione of course will pass with flying colours.

Transfiguration, this test does not seem to go as well for Harry but I think even though Harry forgot the definition of a Switching Spell in the theory I think Harry's extensive knowledge of practical magic would pull up his mark. Ron I'm not sure as we know nothing about his reaction to the test but I believe Ron's theoretical knowledge is on a par with Harry and so I would expect him to get a similar mark. Hermione who we know has a particular liking for transfiguration will of course get top marks.

Herbology, Harry appears to do very well in this test (apart from a small bite from a fanged Geranium) He feels he has done reasonable which I feel is always a good sign. Ron I am really unsure about but as he and Harry always appear to get similar marks i feel Ron will do just as well as Harry in this one. Hermione once again will unquestionably get an O in this test.

Defence Against The Dark Arts
Harry will of course get an O in DATAs for obvious reasons Hermione and Ron as founders and members of the DA I feel will also do really well, O's all round!

Ancient Ruins, I think even though Hermione mis-translated Ehwaz 'it means partnership not defense' i feel this will not get in the way of yet another O.

Potions, I think this will be the big surprise for Harry as i believe he has achieved an O in potions thus allowing him to get into Snape's potions class. I have no real evidence for this apart from the fact that Harry is treated so unfairly all year in potions, in his fifth year and to think about it, from year one. I feel that his hatred of Snape will spur him on to do really well and get one over on Snape by making him accept him in his NEWT class and so admit that Harry's skill at potions. Ron however will not do as well as I can't see what motivation he would have to do well in Potions (Harry wants to be a Auror). Hermione will i believe keep her winning streak going.

Arithmancy, Hermione will once again ace the in her words 'toughest subject there is' why wouldn't she?

Care of Magical Creatures, I think this examination didn't sound too bad and with the trios experiences of many magical creatures will serve them well Fluffy, Buckbeak, Norbert to name but a few.

Astronomy, Harrys theory paper seemed to go well, and then it is possible Ron's theory paper didn't go to bad either thus sustaining two E's. As we know the practical was a bit less successful, however even though Harry, Hermione and Ron probably didn't do as well as they should have I think the examiners will take this into account and amend all the students marks accordingly thus allowing Harry and Ron to keep their hypothetical E's. Hermione as ever with or with out any possible amendments to this test and will get another O.

Divination, Although both Harry and Ron have appeared to do terrible in this exam I think that becauce Divination is such ambiguous subject for saying anything your bound to get some marks, who's going to prove you wrong?

History of Magic, I'm sorry to say that even I (the forever optimist) can not see how Harry could have passed this exam on the up side I think he did manage to write enough to avoid a D. Ron however although he would have obviously been concerned for Harry would have managed to pass this exam after all he is friends with Hermione and has had the advantage of Hermione's notes to help him through the exam. Hermione will again get an O but i feel out of concern for Harry this will be her poorest mark. (still probably 112%)

i think harry will get top marks in all of his owls but i dont think it really matters what he does after school but i think in book 6 we will see him getting very powerful indeed

Well, does it really matter what OWLs they all get?? The series ends at their seventh year in school... we're not going to see their adult life unless JKR writes some kind of epilogue after book 7... (which I highly doubt).

I do however think that Harry will get an O in his potions thus being able to take Snape's class although the two of them loathe each other. I figure Snape will have nothing to say b/c Harry got in on his own accord, but we all know Snape could say something that Harry only got an O b/c the test giver was star struck or something. But then maybe having the "closet respect" for Harry that he showed for like 2 seconds when Harry deflected Snape's Legillimens (sp??) during the Occulmency (sp??) lesson. Who knows...

I don't really think that the OWLs they get will be all that important in the next book... but for the record i think Hermione will get them all (as for the 12? I do not know...), Ron won't pass them all but I think he'll get at least 7... and I can see Harry getting 7+ as well too.

Well that's my 2 cents worth!!

I think Harry will get the following OWLs

DADA: O (At least, remember the corporeal Patronus he made?)

Potions: O (Harry has to deal with Snape and he only made one mistake, but even if he doesn't get an Outstanding, Dumbledore will let Harry get in anyway. Also Harry does have some of Voldemort's powers and is James and Lily's son)

Transfigurations: E

Charms: E

Divination: A

Astronomy: A

History of Magic: P

Care of Magical Creatures: O

Herbology: E

Hermione Will Get O's across the board

Ron will do the same as Harry except he will get an E in potions.

I think Harry will get most of his OWLs. The only ones I don't see him getting is divination and history of magic. Mainly because he didn't care about divination in the first place and because of the dream in HoM.

Ron I think will do about the same as Harry, though he might not get his potions as well as divination and HoM.

Hermione, will pull it out with top marks in everything. (Big surprise )

As for jobs, I think Harry will get enough OWLs to become an auror.

Ron I don't think will become and auror, but I do think he will work in the Ministry of Magic.

Hermione might become an Unspeakable, though the only reason I see her doing that is to protect the muggles and all the little creatures that might get hurt if Voldemort is allowed to take over.