Seventh year

A Seventh Year is a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who is in their seventh, and final year of magical education. Seventh Years are typically seventeen to eighteen years of age.

The Seventh Year contains the most important exams given at Hogwarts — the N.E.W.T.s. Students conclude their N.E.W.T. level studies in the seventh year, at the end of which they sit the N.E.W.T. exam pertaining to each of their subjects. A student in the Seventh Year would have the same schedule he or she had in the Sixth Year, and would sit only those classes in which they received O.W.L.s meeting the minimum requirement of the professor for that subject. However, not all students take N.E.W.T.s, as some occupations require only O.W.L.s.

Every year, a male and female Seventh Year Prefect are appointed Head Boy and Head Girl respectively. It is possible that Headmaster selects the Head students from among the Seventh Year Prefects each year, though sometimes they may not have been Prefects, as in the case of James Potter.

In the year of 1997-1998, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Dean Thomas, and many other overage Muggle-borns skipped their seventh year, while on the run.

Note
It is possible that there is some fashion of a graduation ceremony held for the Seventh Years.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows