a rare species of plant which neville is searching for, in order to study, happens to be part of the ecosystem of the rare magical creature rolf scamander is researching….and that’s how they meet :^]
Before the ban on experimental breeding some rather fascinating creatures were made. Above is the image of Ayed, the first and only of her kind. Kept by the Shafiq family for many years she was eventually gifted to the Egyptian Ministry of Magic where she lived out her days, utterly alone.
It is generally claimed that such cruelties are the reason that Ministries made movements to ban experimental breeding, or at least heavily restrict it, but ultimately this supposed ethical reason is a lie and nothing more. Really Ministries wanted greater control over their people, and over the magical creatures within their borders.
Having not yet mapped all the magical creatures in existence they thought to limit the creation of new ones in order to keep only known creatures in their dominions. However international communication being as flawed as it is not all Ministries knew what magical creatures were already in existence, simply not in their area, and which were newly bred creatures. As such one might confuse a hex-bred flame-breathing chicken with the Japanese Basan, due to a lack of awareness of what other magical creatures do already exist.
Indeed the vagueness in some of the legislation, and the way certain sentient magical creatures – such as Merpeople and Centaurs – are classed, means that even the cross-breeding of certain magical creatures (most usually shapeshifting merpeople and humans) might technically be bannable by the ministry. While this may not have been intended by the original legislators it has also never been altered, which has allowed some pureblood lobbyists to drag in wixes with non-human heritage and campaign for them to be “destroyed” as the products of illegal beast breeding.
– Excerpt from Beings, Beasts, and the Constant Divide by Anima Faustus
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