Chapter Fourteen of HBP; aka Lupinlore's Big OOPS

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No: HPFGUIDX 128695

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hogsheadbarmaid" 
<hhbarmaid at g...> wrote:
> Barmaid now:
> a)  While you may see the story of Arthur and the Quidditch tickets 
> as corruption I do not recall there being anything negative in the 
> presentation of this event in canon, in fact it seemed to be a good 
> thing.

GEO: Thats frankly your intepretation, but the exchange that occured 
in my opinion violated certain ethical rules that govern public 
servants like Arthur Weasley especially since he was hired to uphold 
the law in relation to muggle artifacts and their enchantments and 
then there is the whole bit about him accepting gifts of such value.
 
> b)  Is there canon to support that the use of unforgivables was 
> actually officially sanctioned??

GEO: They were authorized by the Minister of Magical Law Enforcement 
who was the same upstanding citizen that decided to deprive Sirius 
Black of a trial and busted his own son out of Azkaban so I would 
certainly deem them officially sanctioned.