Question about the Ministry of Magic

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 8112

In GoF Barty Crouch mentions how his Grandfather had a flying carpet -
 before they were made illegal. Also in CoS Mrs. Weasley mentions 
that Arthur wrote the protection of muggle artifacts laws himself. I 
don't think we're ever told how long Arthur has worked there but the 
laws can only have existed for that length of time. It's quite 
possible that a new swathe of muggle protection laws came in all at 
once, to allow Lilly Evans practising magic underage before that, in 
the same way the European Commission introduced a whole load of new 
standards and laws to Britain when we joined up (I think JKR is 
satirising this to some extent with alot of this stuff, particularly 
Percy's cauldron thickness in GoF).



Dai

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kassie Ostrander" <Kassie21 at h...> 
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
> >
> 
> 
> I actually had a question that is quite similar... How long has the 
Decree 
> for underage wizardry been along?  In SS Petunia Dursley says that 
Lilly 
> always used to come home and turn teacups into frogs, or something 
to that 
> effect;  could something have happened in recent years to warrent 
these 
> changes?
> 
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