[HPforGrownups] Some canon related WOMBAT wonderings/ some questions from the test

[dracojadon at yahoo.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 170274

>From WOMBAT:
> 3. Chose the ministry of magic decision that, in your estimation,
> had
> the MOST DAMAGING effect on present day wizarding life.
<snip>
> b) The defeat of the Appeal Against House- Elf Slavery in 1973
<snip>
> e)the Wand band of 1631, which forbade non-human magical beings to
> carry wands


The problem with these two is who do we include in 'wizarding'?

As Magpie says, house-elves make wizards' lives easier - but it could  
also be argued that it increases the social divide between old and  
new families, which is a bad thing for wizarding life in general; and  
are house-elves really needed in this age of modern magical household  
spells and teetering piles of Lockhart books?

IMO e) is as damaging to human wizards as to other magical beings,  
leading to alienation (i.e. not sharing knowledge), and to depriving  
intelligent beings of a tool for furthering knowledge/advancing inter- 
species magic, which could turn out to be very powerful.

dracojadon