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Steelsheen 
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.
Kurumi nodded and couldn't help but giggle. Giving the bits she had read in
Hogwarts, a History about the former Groundkeeeper...the Ravenclaw was probably closer to the truth. Still, Kurumi was going to give the man, erm, half-giant the benefit of the doubt for the time being. It also gave them some guidelines for the law in question.
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BanaBatGirl
"ALL RIGHT, everyone, let's reconvene here on the hay, sitting next to your partner and your puff. Why don't we go around and have one person from each group say who you worked with and what you came up with. We'll explore the best ideas or most popular questions in today's lesson, as well as do a few fun pygmy puff-owner activities."
He nodded and looked to the first student group for answers.
Then Professor Williamson moved the lesson along and Kurumi followed Vickers to the hay and took a seat, patting Momotaro II before turning her attention to the Care of Magical Creature's professor. Share? Kurumi's gaze immediately went to Vickers, seeing as he had brought up what was probably their best argument about the breeding process, but his face was indicating to her that this one was on her. So, smiling at her partner, Kurumi raised her left hand, once again to avoid disturbing the pygmy puff on her right shoulder, and waited until it was her turn.
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Professor, Vickers and I discussed the issue of whether pygmy puffs are an exception to the Ban on Experimental Breeding. There are other cases of magical creatures being created and having no punishment, such as Blast-Ended Skrewts, so we tried to reason what may have happened." She paused to take a breath, there really was no point in going into the Blast-Ended Skrewts since the subject matter was pygmy puffs at the moment. "
A few things that came to mind were the fact that pygmy puffs are not technically a new species, but are only miniature versions of an existing creature - Puffskeins - creating a new breed and not new species." A rather nice little loophole there. "
Also, Puffskeins only have a Ministry rating of XX, which means that they are harmless and may be domesticated. The ban Scamander wrote seems to be written in such a way to prevent witches and wizards from crossbreeding species that could result in a creature thats unpredictable or impossible to control, but Puffskeins do not pose this threat."
Kurumi lowered her hand now and glanced at Vickers. Hopefully that had been an acceptable summary of their discussion, taking out the details that were not directly related to pygmy puffs.
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Assuming that these things are considered in the review process, it would seem that pygmy puffs fall under a different category and the ban does not apply to them."