SPOILER!!: Kurumi and W3 :P
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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.
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.
"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.
"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."
Sitting quietly beside the Gryffindor Prefect, the Ravenclaw listened to her summarize about their discussion with the COMC Professor. Public speaking, he was amazed at how easy it was for Kurumi, a kind of grace and confidence he knew he didnt have. Heck if he wasnt so focused on the answer during class discussions it'd be doubtful he'd get two words out before stuttering and getting lost in what he had to say.
He turned his attention back to the Professor when he spoke, so at least he supported the idea that the puffskeins were harmless enough to begin with, the ban having little impact on pygmy puffs as a whole. Which the Ravenclaw thought was a great thing, he didnt want the harmless, furry creatures rounded up in case there was some retroactive effort to enforce the law on them.