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Originally Posted by HOPEendures  Heather stared at the titles and shook her head in shame. Muggles really needed more creative titles. However, she shouldn't be criticizing the the muggles on their lack of creativity but she should be mad that wizards were actually causing such raucous that made headlines.
"Well, the headline about the Bigfoot sighting might not break any wizarding laws," Heather said shifting slightly. "Muggles have been pointing out Bigfoot sightings since the early 1800's. Even Muggles have to have myths to believe in and this could be one of them. They could also be seeing other animals and labeling it as Bigfoot because they aren't really getting a close enough look." Then again she could be wrong but it was worth the risk. However, she could also see the argument against her statement. "You'll remember that we talked about a country's responsibility to hide its magical creatures from Muggles, right?" Cade really appreciated those who were willing to answer her questions, and the thought that was put into this answer. "Muggles have seen the Loch Ness monster and the Yeti, but we still expect Scotland and Tibet to try to hide them."
"BUT... Muggles see Bigfoot in grizzly bears and ugly trees. This definitely could be one of those mis-sightings."
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Originally Posted by Macavity Extra credit round....interesting.
The YATI listened as they were told how some Muggles dealt with experiencing things that were unusual to them but not so unusual to the members of the wizarding world. It was a newspaper that seemed to be filled with stories of such experiences looking much like the Quibbler. When the enlargened tabloid was turned over, Simon read over the various stories to see what thet had to work with.
"The two tailed dog....most likely a crup," he started to say, picking one of the headlines that they could choose from, the topic catching his attention. "The appearance of two tails within Muggle sight means that not only has the crup owner broken the law by not removing the extra tail when it was young but does not have complete control of the creature in muggle areas which is a condition of the licensing agreement to own on."
His father had rescued a crup from one such owner many years ago, the animal having been brought to his attention by a neighbor after it had escaped his owner way too many times. , The Bennett family then having cared for it when he was a small boy AFTER the tail had been properly removed. "Another example of someone not hiding their magical creature. Crups are a major point of contention and need careful regulation because those two tails draw such attention to their oddity." Cade gave him a nod. Removing that second tail was heart-breaking, but it was preferable to letting the poor thing get caught by a Muggle.
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Originally Posted by lazykitty Roxanne couldn't help but roll her eyes good naturedly at that ELVIS LIVES! article. Even after all these years, those rumors still persisted. And still no concrete proof. Anyway. On to the question at hand. "I don't believe there are any of our laws being broken in the headline about man in the poncho escaping the police. After all, the man in question could very well be a muggle. And even if he was a wizard, there's no evidence of him having used magic, otherwise that would've been their headline." He was however breaking SEVERAL muggle laws, obviously. She had to shake her head. Whatever could've possed him to escape the police?! He was only making things worse for himself... "You might be right. It would be very hard for us to prosecute, or even find, this man. I'm reminded of the part of the Statute of Secrecy that says that when we are out in Muggle company, witches and wizards must dress to blend. This man certainly isn't blending, is he?" Still, Muggles were occasionally just crazy and not actually wizards misbehaving, as Roxanne pointed out.
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Originally Posted by Luna_Midnight Extra credit round? Should be interesting...
Wow people were still thinking that Elvis was alive were muggles just bonkers! She glanced over each of the titles they did not have very good titles but all of them did pop out saying read me basically. Well for the two headed chicken that hatched in Brazil that could either be braking one of our laws or it could be just a mutation of the chicken. Something could have happened in the DNA coding or one of our laws could have been broken- maybe experimental breeding. But Sky was more leaning towards the mutation in the chicken. "It could be either of those, true," Cade nodded. "It would be worth researching if one came across this type of article in the paper, if only because there is a possibility of experimental breeding. But even more telling..." And Cade gave the woman a smile, since it was sort of a tricky question. "If the chicken hatched in Brazil, it is out of our jurisdiction. Thank goodness."
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Originally Posted by Fira The question crisis was closed. Okay. Josh was glad it was closed too and he nodded a bit when the woman told him to review and brush up his list of non-tradable items. He supposed he was going to do some research and maybe learn one or two more laws about the case.
He folded his arms again, and listened to the answers to the next question silently as he could not think of any answer. Well...he had his own ideas but...he just preferred to remain silent for the moment.
When he heard the woman boss mention extra credit round, though, Josh focused all his attention on her. Maybe he could do something now. First he listened carefully, then stared at the headlines for a moment or so. Haha. They all seemed to be fun.
''The horse that can do math.'' he said then ''That must be an animagus. I have no idea why an animagus witch or wizard would do that, maybe he or she is just having fun by teasing muggles that way or, it can be anything, if i were an animagus and wanted to be rich; i could talk to a muggle friend of mine and make plans of passing me as a super animal so we can earn lots of money this way. And this, surely, would be a breach of wizarding secrecy.'' "Exactly so, and this is one that I researched myself back when I was working in the Animagus office. It is the responsibility of registered Animagii to behave as an actual animal would, and unregistered Animagii face stiff penalties."
She updated her points chart, giving each person who responded their points. Excellent... there was some real competition there at the end.
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Auror Office - 11
Magical Law Enforcement Squad - 4
Wizengamot - 4
"Congratulations to the Auror Office for their win, although I recommend that Jaxton take these young men out for lunch as it was their persistence that won the day. Lunch is on me, of course." And they would probably prefer not to have her there messing up their male bonding.
"That's all I have today, but I encourage you to read up on the laws and to consider the unique ways you can find wrongdoers - maybe Muggle newspapers, maybe by developing contacts in the Wizarding community... the sky is the limit."
She stepped back and gestured to Dorian. "Mr. Tamerlane is going to lead our next subject. I really appreciate your participation today."
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