Question about the Ministry of Magic

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No: HPFGUIDX 8163

CoS ch.2 (p.21 of the US hardcover); "....Decree for the Reasonable 
Restriction of Underage Sorcery, 1875,...."
So it was around when Lily was a kid.


--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Dai Evans" <dwe199 at s...> wrote:
> 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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