Question about the Ministry of Magic

[astrothena at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 8107


Don't forget, when Sirius was flying around on his motorcycle, the 
Ministry was busy just trying to fight Voldemort. I'm sure they must 
have let some violations slide by.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy Winters" <amy at w...> wrote:
> Has there been any discussion about how long the Ministry of Magic 
> has been in place?  Or Mr. Weasley's department?  (Misuse of Muggle 
> Artifacts)  In the first chapter(?) of PS/SS when Hagrid flys in on 
> Sirius's motercycle, it didn't seem like that big of a deal to 
> Dumbledore or McGonagall.  Which means that a)that didn't really 
care 
> that the motorcycle was illegal, b)the Department for the misuse of 
> muggle artifacts didn't exist, or c) Sirius was exempt from the 
rules 
> that the rest of the witches and warlocks had to abide by.  I think 
> I'm personally going for b.  I was just curious if anything like 
this 
> had been addressed on the list before.
> 
> Amy