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	Ordinary Wizarding Level - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The concept of the O.W.L. is based upon the British system of secondary education, in which students work toward the eventual writing of examinations which, if passed, grant the student designations of various levels in a wide range of disciplines.
		O.W.L. examinations are administered to all Hogwarts students in their fifth year.
		British students correlate the O.W.L.s with their own GCSE which, though less exactly as that with Ordinary Wizarding Levels (O.W.L.s), occur at the same age.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ordinary_Wizarding_Levels (857 words)

	Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test (often abbreviated N.E.W.T.) is a highly-advanced test of magical ability in a particular field in the fictional Harry Potter series.
		British students correlate the N.E.W.T.s with their own A-levels which, though less exactly as that with Ordinary Wizarding Levels (O.W.L.s), occur at the same age.
		He wants to be an Auror, and she informs him that the Ministry of Magic expects Auror applicants to have achieved "Exceeds Expectations" in at least five N.E.W.T.s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nastily_Exhausting_Wizarding_Test (393 words)

	HPL: Hogwarts Academics
		If a student achieved the required O.W.L. in a particular subject (which varies from teacher to teacher), he or she may continue in that subject, but is not required to do so.
		These are standardized tests administered by the Wizarding Examinations Authority; the teachers may proctor exams outside their own subjects but do not attend the Ordinary Wizarding Level (O.W.L.) in their own subjects.
		Each O.W.L. has a theory portion, and for applicable classes a separate practical portion is given, so that many O.W.L.s are in two parts, although only one O.W.L. score is given for each subject.
	www.hp-lexicon.org /hogwarts/classes/hogwarts_academics.html (503 words)

	What's What in the World of Harry Potter
		The game is attended by 100,000 witches and wizards at a magical stadium unseen by Muggles.
		One student from each school is chosen to compete, their names selected by the ancient Goblet of Fire.
		The tournament is held at Hogwarts in GOBLET OF FIRE; it has not been held for centuries, because the death toll was too high.
	www.kidsreads.com /harrypotter/what.html (1591 words)

	Rowling’s latest book worth the wait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		History, romance and Potions all contribute to the finale of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth installment of J.K. Rowling’s epic series about a boy wizard and the fight between good and evil.
		After the Ministry of Magic officially acknowledges the evil Lord Voldemort’s return to power at the end of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” the wizarding world plunges into a state of fear.
		He receives his desired number of O.W.L. test scores, becomes the Gryffindor Quidditch team captain and discovers a mysterious Potions book, whose previous owner, the Half-Blood Prince, filled the margins with notes and shortcuts that help Harry become a Potions whiz.
	collegian.ksu.edu /article.php?a=6436 (543 words)

	The Akashic Record: O
		Ordinary Wizarding Levels: Exams to demonstrate basic competence in a subject at graduation, equivalent to "O-levels" (ordinary levels) in British schools.
		owls: Popular as familiars, owls are also the basis of the wizard postal system, able to find anyone, anywhere, to deliver their mail.
		Owlery: The place where the Hogwarts-owned owls, and sometimes student ones, roost when not delivering mail.
	www.m5p.com /~pravn/hp/o-3.html (271 words)

	Harry Potter lexicon
		We see very little of this in the books, although obviously the kids coming into Hogwarts have been trained in some of these basic skills or they wouldn't be able to handle the classes they face at Hogwarts.
		Given the very medieval nature of the Wizarding World, I suggest that most kids are trained either by their parents in basic reading, writing, and math, or are trained in small one-room schools with a relatively few children and one teacher.
		JKR says that Hogwarts is the only Wizarding school in Britain for kids eleven and up.
	www.lunaticalupin.0catch.com /clases.htm (687 words)

	Midnight Moon :: Dictionary
		Taken at the end of the seventh year, on the subjects each student chose to keep studying after their O.W.L.s.
		For certain jobs in the wizarding world you need a certain amount of approved N.E.W.T.s or an approved N.E.W.T. in certain subjects; for example, to be an Auror you need at least five N.E.W.T.s, graded Exceeds Expectations or above.
		To keep studying a subject after fifth year you need to have an approving OWL in that subject.
	www.geocities.com /pau_super10/nop.html (557 words)

	KryptonSite Message Forums Archive - Harry Potter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The N.E.W.T.'s (Nearly Exhausting Wizarding Tests), like Hartski said, are the final tests to seperate the wizarding students into their prospective fields.
		I have bad test anxiety myself so that chapter where they had to take the O.W.L's was pure torture to me, especially since Harry didn't get his astronomy and history exams done.
		It hit so much closer to home, that it's not all cake and ice cream that we are reading and that Harry is in a fight for his life.
	www.kryptonsite.com /forums/showthread/t-31425-p-20.html (4331 words)

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		The juxtaposition of magic and reality, their depiction as belonging to two contrasting worlds that comment on and inform each other, is in the best tradition of the English epic and drama, Arthur’s court vs. the Green chapel and Sir Bertilak’s castle, white world vs. red world, Forest of Arden vs. court.
		Our own entrance to this world, meanwhile, is through the eyes of Harry’s bigoted foster parents, "the Dursleys of number four, Privet Drive," who are ashamed of having a wizard in the family and who are, when the first book opens, desperately afraid that someone will discover their secret.
		By the second volume, a conflict has arisen between the children at the school who have been raised to think that pure-blooded witches and wizards are superior to the children of Muggles who are born with magical powers, "Mudbloods" they are called in what is explicitly offered as a derogatory and vulgar term.
	www.nypress.com /13/4/news&columns/culture.cfm (2214 words)

	HPL: Wizarding Schools
		Rather than a Great Hall as at Hogwarts, the Palace contains a Dining Chamber, which is elaborately decorated at Christmastime but in a different style than that used at Hogwarts (GF23).
		The scholastic system at the Academy is arranged differently than that at Hogwarts; instead of sitting Ordinary Wizarding Levels or their equivalent at the end of five years, Academy students sit exams after six years (HBP5).
		During the feast celebrating the arrival of the students for the Triwizard Tournament, JK Rowling chose to serve "bouillabaisse".
	www.hp-lexicon.org /wizworld/places/schools.html (392 words)

	Harry Potter & The Second War - DarkMark.Com Message Board
		Harry after five minutes of trying finally grabbed the small owl and relieved it of its letters, one was from Ron Weasley, Harry’s other best friend the other letter was from Remus Lupin, Harry’s old Professor.
		The third owl which Harry had forgotten about completely was extending its leg, acting very important.
		He wouldn’t of had to have any of this he wouldn’t of had to be the boy-who-lived if it wasn’t for the prophecy he could be normal, at least as normal a sixteen year old wizard could be.
	www.darkmark.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=36375 (3648 words)

	MuggleNet \| Hogwarts \| Information
		The equivalent of GCSEs and A-Levels at Hogwarts, however, come in the form of Ordinary Wizarding Levels after their fifth year [OWL in UK edition and O.W.L. in US edition].
		At the end of the school year, fifth-year students at Hogwarts take the written and practical parts of the Ordinary Wizarding Levels exams (abbreviated OWL in UK edition and O.W.L. in US edition).
		The OWLs were spread over two weeks, with written exams in the mornings and practical exams in the afternoon (except for the practical Astronomy exam at night).
	www.mugglenet.com /infosection/hogwarts/exams.shtml (878 words)

	Stelinda - Chamber of Secrets
		He assured her that the OWLs would not be too tough for her and then gave her the portkey to the examination hall.
		Ordinary Wizarding Levels For Students who failed/ want to give a retest/ were unable to give the first exam/ Do not attend any wizarding school
		Charms and Defense were very simple, and wizarding arethimetic was not a very challenging task for a person who had got muggle education.
	www.cosforums.com /showthread.php?p=3659392#post3659392 (7809 words)

	DarkMark.Com Message Board > Harry Potter and the Alchemist's Cell
		Harry Potter was a wizard, and a fairly famous one at that.
		Harry was to kill the same wizard who had killed his parents, killed innocent wizards and muggles, had assisted in killing his own godfather, and had given him his scar.
		Now that the whole wizarding world knows about him, it probably wouldn't be too smart of him to try to pull anything.
	www.darkmark.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t28076.html (5387 words)

	Roanoke College's Order of the Phoenix
		Hagrid, the gigantic man who brought the letter, finally introduces Harry into the real circumstances of his life: His parents were a wizard and a witch, they were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort protecting him.
		Their quest for the truth leads across many obstacles, from keeping up the everyday school life, a bewitched Quidditch match (Quidditch is a popular wizard sport), Fluffy, the three-headed monster dog and quite some tasks one has to overcome to get to the guarded object.
		Raging with hormones, the 15-year-old wizard returns to the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to confront slanderous gossip, a cruel new professor, and a Ravenclaw girl on whom he has a crush.
	clubs.roanoke.edu /harrypotter/movies.html (840 words)

	AhlulBayt Discussion Forum > Potted Harry for beginners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		He receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry telling him he is a wizard and inviting him to start school.
		His father James was a wizard and his mother Lily was a witch.
		Ron is made keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, but the team's triumph is not enough to take their minds off the looming Ordinary Wizarding Levels (OWL) exams.
	www.shiachat.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t60196.html (1102 words)

	Perhaps WASL should become WASOWL \| TheNewsTribune.com \| Tacoma, WA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		This year Washington 10th-graders are required to pass three WASL tests or lose out on receiving a high school diploma, and the projected flunk rate is 50 percent.
		A-levels, which are still used, are the essential qualification for getting into college.
		But until the magical day this happens, providing two levels of diplomas offers more students a credential positively reflecting on what the student has accomplished.
	www.thenewstribune.com /opinion/insight/story/5476892p-4940550c.html (815 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		It became, rather, a sort of extension of the ordinary world–something that was actually there if only you looked long and hard enough.
		He turns out to excel at a game called Quidditch that is played on flying broomsticks, though it seems to inspire the same passions and excitement that cricket does in the ordinary world.
		The first volume in the series makes Hogwarts a pretty straightfoward equivalent to Eton: Harry’s name, we’re told, has been "down for Hogwarts since before he was born," and his parents were Head Boy and Girl there.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=1129 (2178 words)

	The Sugar Quill > Those Ruddy OWLs!
		Anyway, Hermione should bag 12/13 OWLs, so she does as well or better than the other characters who are portrayed as intelligent in the series (Bill/Percy)
		Is there an OWL in potions, one in Transfiguration, one in Arithmancy, etc? Do you have to take the course to sit the OWL exam?
		Maybe she could be too busy doing other things with certain people coughRoncough and she doesn't exactly get around to studing really hard until the last minute and then goes okay anyway, but not as well as she would have liked.
	www.sugarquill.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/lofiversion/t3706.html (1485 words)

	Ordinary Wizarding Levels
		O.W.L.S or Ordinary Wizarding Levels are a certain qualification that Hogwarts Students take when they are 15 in their fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
		O.W.L.S affect what jobs you can apply for and what subjects you can take up in your sixth and seventh years.
		Basically, if you got an A in Potions, but Professor Snape only took E's and O's into his advanced Potions classes you would not be able to continue studying the subject.
	harrypotter1105.tripod.com /id20.html (141 words)

	HELLO! Harry Potter Special
		owls n Those in the magic world use the nocturnal birds to deliver messages
		O.W.L.S. n Stands for Ordinary Wizarding Levels, or the equivalent of British O-levels
		His chum Hermione, played by Emma Watson, is the daughter of muggles — ordinary humans lacking in magic skills
	www.hellomagazine.com /specials/harrypotter/section6c.html (116 words)

	Hogwarts Interactive - Professor Drake's Office - Powered by XMB 1.9.1 Nexus
		After Hogwarts I went to a wizarding college (Academy de la Magic) planning to study Potions but I got sidetracked caught up so to speak and ending up studying Transfiguration.
		I finished wizarding college with even more qualifications, from there I went on to a german wizarding university.
		I graduated from wizarding university with Transfiguration as my major, I heard there was a position at Hogwart avaliable and I applied for it - obviously I got it or else I would not be here now.
	hogwarts-interactive.com /viewthread.php?tid=635 (1185 words)

	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - GoSale.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Book III reveals that a wizard responsible for a massacre and who may or may not be working for Voldemort has escaped from Azkaban, the dreaded wizard prison.
		Book IV uncovers that a nefarious prank at the Wizard World Cup may actually be a heinious scheme to lure Voldemort's followers back to him and sheds light on a member's mysterious past, ending with a shocking revelation.
		Once again J.K. Rowling has increased the maturity level of the book (writing as well as content) to match the fact that Harry himself is growing up and having to deal more with the adult world outside of Hogwarts.
	www.gosale.com /show_product.php/143624/-harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix (16238 words)

	Harry Potter OOTP (SPOILERS!))
		I remember Ordinary Wizarding Levels, but I don't remember what NEWT stands for.
		OWLs are Ordinary Wizarding Levels (taken by 5th years)
		I don't think that Harry not being able to contact Serius through the mirror means that he is definitely dead.
	www.disneycentral.com /forum/showthread.php?p=49820 (1296 words)

	O.W.L.s (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The O.W.L.s (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) exam is taken by a student by free will.
		If you get all 12 O.W.L.s it will be posted in your house common room.
		This test is based on lessons you learned in your classes.
	www.expage.com /owls970 (168 words)

	What's In a Name? -- The Guide to Harry Potter Name Etymology
		O.W.L.s - "Ordinary Wizarding Levels", a standardized test for wizards.
		A privet is a shrub having opposite leaves and clusters of white flowers, widely used for hedges.
		So I [Amanda] suspect that with the fish and smelly connotations, JKR picked it because having such a ridiculous word being treated with such reverence by the Dursleys is funny.
	www.theninemuses.net /hp/3.html (4624 words)

	Five Minutes - Ch. 2
		During their conversations about the various classes, Draco found out just how ignorant of the wizarding world and its ways Harry was, and had informed the dark-haired boy that this state of affairs could not continue.
		(Draco had rarely seen a wizard or witch who wasn't elderly who wore spectacles, and very few of those, so there had to be a spell or potion.) He didn't think to analyse why, but the thought of being able to see Harry's eyes better quite pleased him.
		Not that the wizarding world cared all that much if there was more to their friendship than what showed, but Draco's father wanted Draco to produce heirs, and Draco didn't want to disappoint his father by having him hear untrue rumours.
	draeconin.com /tales/stories/fm-02.htm (5977 words)

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