SPOILER!!: Kurumi
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sweetpinkpixie 
Already tame? Kurumi looked at the creature now fast asleep on her shoulder. "I suppose you are right," Kurumi giggled, petting the pink ball of fluff with her index finger. So, no on the tame aspect of the law. Kurumi nodded as Vickers went on about how perhaps Dumbledore had pulled a few strings behind the scenes to take the blame off of Hagrid, therefore making him unpenalized. "You might be right, but not even Dumbledore was above the law...at least not back in those days, surely he would have had a firm talking to about those being in the school," she said as she scratched her chin a bit. "On the other hand, perhaps they were able to pass off Hagrid breeding those creatures because he used one in the Triwizard Tournament. So...Dumbledore could have passed that off as his intent to breed them was for that purpose."
As Vickers went on a bit more, Kurumi's eyes remained on the words Experimental Banning...more specifically on the word experimental in the textbook. But her thoughts were momentarily distracted when Vickers brought up a good point. "Hmm, that could very well be," she nodded. "Hybrid creatures certainly seemed to fall under that category, as is the case with Blast-Ended Skrewts. At least, if my theory about intent is true, that you can't breed without reason?[/b]" The magical world did seem to revolve entirely around the concept of intent after all. "Puffskeins only have a Ministry rating of XX, so breeding them would be about the same as breeding a kneazle. I would assume that is miniatures were allowed that Ministry ratings would still have a heavy hand in what could be breed and what couldn't... somehow I don't think claiming to be breeding a minature Ukrainian Ironbelly would go over well. Or a manticore for that matter." Still, there was something to be said about this point.
Now Kurumi's eyes were back on the word...Experimental. "What if...one could claim that they were actually experimenting?" Kurumi asked, sort of more voicing her thoughts more than actually asking Vickers his opinion - although he was more than willing to chime in. Because, if one wasn't really experimenting and actually KNEW what they were doing, wasn't that sort of a loophole? Perhaps being too picky?
Vickers nodded his head thoughtfully at Kurumi's reply
"Good point. The Tournament could've been the primary reason for coming up with these exotic creatures, after all they had dragons specially brought in. I could imagine Headmaster Dumbledore having to get clearances for that. Imagine the paperwork that went through in the Ministry." he laughed then after a beat added
"But I cant shake the feeling that Groundskeeper Hagrid was just incredibly fortunate that when he had a disastrous breeding incident the Tri-Wizard Tournament was there to.... not cover it up, but at least make best with an incident that could've been really bad for Hogwarts. Impecable timing as it were." he added smirking.
Boy would he wouldve wanted to be half as lucky as Hagrid.
Then Professor Williamson spoke and had them move towards the hay. He glanced at Kurumi and angled his head for them to find a spot there, then carried Hendrix towards their new seats.