Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-74.104.206.83-20130731122709/@comment-10390252-20130807153926

Realistically, it is implausible that Ozpin would have been able to advance Ruby two years on a whim. It is also unrealistic that he would want to - prophecy or no. Dropping her in the deep end is an easy way to kill her and that isn't exactly in his best interests (or that of the wider world).

I suspect that, as Ozpin apparently knows Crow personally, he may have spent the time whilst Glynda was playing 'bad cop' on the 'phone to his old buddy Crow to find out just what the deal is with this girl who looks spookily like one of the figures on the statue in the centre of the Academy gardens. Everything that he asked Ruby when he spoke to her was a test to see whether she would tell him the truth and how mature she was emotionally.