Potter money / JKR's appearance

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

collective SIAS wrote:

> http://cgi.money.cnn.com/apps/hpcurrconv
> This is a link to harry potter conversion. I thought it was cute 
>              Jenna

I'll skip the bad joke about converting HP haters to HP lovers, and 
erely mention that this currency converter is only between dollars 
and wizard money, not between pounds and wizard money. It seems to 
use the "one Galleon is around five pounds" (which is around seven 
dollars) conversion stated by JKR in an interview (and which 
correlates with Dumbledore's remarks in his prefaces to the textbooks 
about the amount of money that has been raised by Comic Relief. *I* 
still think that looking at the prices of wizarding merchandise 
(Every Flavor Beans, wands, etc) a Galleon must be closer to $35 than 
to $7. 

Whicheverway, the converter page had a link to an article:
http://money.cnn.com/2001/10/24/saving/harrypotter/ "What It Costs to 
be a Harry Potter Fan" ab"out the prices of Muggle HP merchandise. It 
says: ""The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1)," "Hogwarts (A 
History)," "From Egg to Inferno: A Dragon Keeper's Guide," and 
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" are all available" at 
harrypotter.warnerbros.com   ??? Catlady says, since when????

Tabouli wrote:

> (pout pout everyone ELSE gets to watch the movie and read the books
> as soon as they come out and I ALWAYS have to wait and it's not MY 
> fault that I live in Australia, grumble grumble whinge whinge)

I suppose it doesn't help that I'm not seeing it until tomorrow? 
Well, consider yourself hugged in a comforting way.

> So, all you red-blooded HP fans out there who fancy women (or can
> at least view them in a spirit of assessing their attractiveness), 
> wotcher think of JKR then? 

Last year I told a male friend about being a Harry Potter fan and his 
reply was that the author seems to be a 'babe', so I told him that 
that is only since her make-over. Maybe she was trying to prove that 
Hermione's make-over for the Yule Ball wasn't as unrealistic as she 
knew that some people (such as me) were going to complain.