Talisman's Long Answers now with Ginger's comments

[quigonginger]

First of all, kudos to Talisman for putting in her reasoning along 
with the answers.  I'm only going to repeat the ones I thought 
differently on.  Everything else is "yeah, what she said".

> PART ONE: MAGICAL LAW 
> 1. Which Ministry of Magic Department(s) and/or committee(s) would 
> you contact to resolve each of the following dilemmas? 
> 
> 1) Your neighbour is concealing a stash of flying carpets, some of 
> which he is allowing to fly loose around his back garden. 
> (a) Wizengamot (b) Department of International Magical Cooperation 
> (c) Misuse of Muggle Artefacts office (d) Obliviators (e) All of 
the 
> above (f) None of the above 
> 
Ginger says:
I picked (b) because it was I had thought that it was Crouch who was 
talking about Ali B and his carpets.  When I looked it up, I realized 
it was Crouch, but he was talking to AW, which means you were right: 
it's (c).  Drat.
> 
(snip)
> 3) Your sixteen year old nephew, D, has hexed his seventeen year 
old 
> sister, E. E has retaliated with a Stunning Spell that missed D and 
> hit a Muggle motorist, who has smashed into a lamppost. 
> 
> (a) Department of Magical Accidents and catastrophes (b) Department 
> of Magical Accidents and catastrophes and Oblivator Squad (c) 
> Department of Magical Accidents and catastrophes, Oblivator Squad 
> and Improper Use of Magic Office (d) Department of Magical 
Accidents 
> and catastrophes, Oblivator Squad, Improper Use of Magic Office and 
> Wizengamot.
>
Ginger:
I put down (d) because I was reading the question as asking which 
depts "should" be called, as in "what is their purpose?".  In other 
words, I was taking it as a test of my knowledge rather than whether 
or not I'd rat out the kid.
(snip) 
> 5) Witch F fed love potion to a Muggle man, who has married her. 
> When you went around with a wedding gift you discovered she is 
using 
> him as an occasional table. 
> (a) Auror Office (b) Misuse of Magic Office (c) Obliviators (d) 
> Wizengamot (e) All of the above (f) None of the above 

Ginger: Again, I put (b) because I thought it would be under their 
juristiction.  Although personally, I'd wonder about someone who 
would marry a table.  Geesh, who ever married a guy just cuz he's 
good wood?
(snip)

> 9). Which of the following wizarding laws, in your view, stands in 
> most urgent need of change? 
> (a) The detection of under-age magic in all magic households 
> (currently impossible) (b) The ban on goblin possession of wands 
> (ought to be lifted) (c) The re-classification of centaurs and 
> merpeople (ought to take their views into account) (d) The 
> guidelines on house-elf welfare (need to be enforced) (e) 
> Definitions of `muggle baiting' (need to be made less stringent) 

Ginger:
I agree it was (d), but what caught my eye was that it was 
*guidelines* that need to be enforces, which means that somewhere out 
there are laws that we don't know about.
(snip)
> 
> PART TWO: MAGICAL TRANSPORT 
> 
> 10) Which mode of transportation would you advise for a young 
mother 
> travelling with one-year old twins with a low boredom threshold, 
her 
> grandmother, who suffers from severe motion sickness, and her 
> husband, who has never mastered the three `D's' ? 
> (a) Apparition (b) Broomsticks (c) Floo powder (d) Knight bus (e) 
> Portkey 7. 

Ginger:  I went with (e).  I never thought about taking hubby side-
along, and was worried about the twins splinching themselves.  
You could be right with (a), though.
(snip)

> PART THREE: EVERYDAY MAGIC 
Ginger agrees with Talisman

> PART FOUR: THE NATURAL WORLD 

> 24) A dog acting in a suspiciously un-canine manner is most likely 
> to be: (a) An animagus (b) A boggart (c) A Crup (or part Crup) (d) 
A 
> grim (e) Imperius-ed (f) Magically trained (g) A Patronus 

Ginger:  I went with (a) as people are not likely to behave doggishly 
at all times.  They will forget themselves at times, and will rarely 
hump the leg of a total stranger (well, except for this one girl I 
went to school with, but she's another story.)
(e) is highly likely, but, really, it could be either.

Ginger, thanking Carolyn and Talisman for providing the Q and A's.