Albus was furious. He couldn’t defend Griselda, but he could defend himself that he as headmaster wasn’t allowed to intervene with the OWLs and NEWTs. because of the conflict of interest clause. He used the headmaster excuse, but for Griselda, he tried to dance around the topic, but it didn’t work like in the past. Why did he have so much bad luck? Ah yes, the Malfoys.