From Chat: 1) Babes of Hogwarts 2) Wizarding Money

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 8771

catlady_de_los_angeles says, Are there enough Babes of Hogwarts for 12
months of a calendar?
1) Fleur on the cover, of course.
2) Hermione in her Ball gown.
3) Cho.
4) Pansy.
5,6) Professors Vector and Sinistra.
7) Is Ginny a Babe?
[hert0661isme says, Ginny is a babe (if you find the right pic on the
PoU group!)]
8) Parvati and Padma, in a twin photo.
9) Is Lavender a Babe?
10) selah_1977 says, Madam Rosmerta for the older men...
fizzwhizbee says, Rosmerta isn't at Hogwarts!

johnwalton_crazyivan says, <-- can see McGonagall in the Swimsuit
Edition...
fizzwhizbee says, LOL! McGonagall
flying_ford_anglia says, Trelawney would suit evening wear - sort of
drag queen chic
flying_ford_anglia says, Madam Malkin in latex, non?
selah_1977 says, <----------falls out of chair at Neil's suggestion
catlady_de_los_angeles says, He called Madam Malkin 'a squat witch in
mauve'
johnwalton_crazyivan says, Neil, as long as it's a latex *robe*, that's
fine.
catlady_de_los_angeles says, that doesn't sound good im latex
skaprincess27 says, I don't think latex is a good thing for anything
flying_ford_anglia says, With thigh boots, naturally...
fizzwhizbee says, Malkin is not at Hogwarts! (beginning to feel like
Hermione)
flying_ford_anglia says, pillar box red thigh boots...

babynick34 says, Babes of Hogwarts... hmm, Prof.Sprout, perhaps, but
maybe not.
catlady_de_los_angeles says, Isn't there a description of Sprout as
'dumpy'?
babynick34 says, Maybe it should be Hags of Hogwarts calendar
jferer says, I always pictured Sprout as having a height/width ratio
approaching 1:1
babynick34 says, Me too... about  3 foot high, and at least 2 foot wide.

[Sprout and maybe Malkin are the only Hufflepuffs nominated. That can't
be right.]

11) selah_1977 says, put the three Gryffindor Chasers in.  I think
they're more athletic than babes, but they're at Hogwarts.
johnwalton_crazyivan says, And they're not jailbait. This is a Good
Thing.
catlady_de_los_angeles says, Group shot., with broomsticks
skaprincess27 says, not just a good thing, but a Good Thing
skaprincess27 says, *is choking down broomstick joke*  Oooh!  Yay!
catlady_de_los_angeles says, A previous chat said that age of consent in
UK is 16 but I don't know if wizard law has any age of consent laws
johnwalton_crazyivan says, We could publish the calendar in Utah, where
the only age-of-consent thing is that you can't be 10 years older than
someone under 18....
selah_1977 says, Just age everyone up a tad, and you should be fine.
catlady_de_los_angeles says, I think we can publish the calendar -- they
put Brooke Shields at 12 in PRETTY BABY -- it's actually dating the
models to which the proverb applies. The California proverb: Sixteen
will get you twenty. In San Quentin.

WIZARDING MONEY
People in the chat discussed Wizarding money. I started copying the
sentences into this e-mail, and then realized that it was belonging so
long that I must summarise.

Ebony asked:  What's the Galleon to pound exchange rate?  What are
salaries like?  We just don't know.

I think one Galleon is worth around $25, which is worth around 17 1/2
pounds. ($1.43 = L1) That was computed based on 5 knuts for the
newspaper in SS/PS, giving a knut is worth around a nickel, a sickle (29
knuts) is worth around $1.50, and a galleon (17 sickles) is worth around
$25.  Seven Galleons for a wand would be $175 for something that is
supposed to last a lifetime. When Harry bought out the candy cart on his
first trip on Hogwaats Expresss, he paid eleven sickles and 7 knuts,
which in my system ranges from $16.30 to $16.75, but during the chat I
did it in my head and got  $16.38.

Dee objected to my whole basis of five knuts for the Daily Prophet is
around two bits, saying that even her skinny small-town newspaper costs
$0.35 not $0.25. I suggested that the Daily Prophet is such a bad paper
that it isn't worth as much as her local paper. Neil appears to agree
with her, doing a computation based on a knut being 5p (roughly 7c):
1.45 x 17 = 24.65 (Galleon), which would be roughly $35.

selah_1977 says, What's a starting Quidditch Seeker's salary per annum?
500,000 sickles? [later computation, at $25 =  $725,000]
flying_ford_anglia says, 3,000 Galleons... [later computation: $75,000]
selah_1977 says, That low, Neil?
flying_ford_anglia says, That's about 24,000, I reckon... [later:
$34,320. He seems to have cut something in half.]
heiditandy says, bonus for each snitch caught. and bonus for making it
into playoffs & then to finals & for winning them too
catlady_de_los_angeles says, Was he a superstar Seeker at Hogwarts? [Who
would have a lot of teams bidding against each other for his services.]
catlady_de_los_angeles says, Someone who only got into the minor league
farm team would be ecstatic to get twice minimum wage for the season,
and nothing out of season
selah_1977 says, So it's safe to say that no one in this world makes a
million Galleons a year? [$25 million.  Some Muggles make $25 million
per annum.]
catlady_de_los_angeles says, I figure that ten Galleons a week (what
Dumbledore offered Dobby) is normal minimum wage for adults
flying_ford_anglia says, That's about 200 a year... [no, 500 a year =
$12,500. That's higher than USA minimum wage.]
fizzwhizbee says, Dumbledore probably would pay more than minimum wage
catlady_de_los_angeles says, To a House Elf? Remember Dobby refused it,
insisted on be paid LESS

fizzwhizbee says, That gold must be enchanted, how can he even carry it?

flying_ford_anglia says, Good point... when Harry dropped a thousand
Galleons...
catlady_de_los_angeles says, $25,000
flying_ford_anglia says, on the bedside table, it would have smashed it
(GoF)
selah_1977 says, Neil and Heidi:  So Harry is a Galleonaire, huh?
flying_ford_anglia says, I think Harry has about ...ooooh ..... 50,000
Galleons [$1,250,000. Quite plausible. Not enough to retire on.]
catlady_de_los_angeles says, I am sure there is magic on the wizarding
money to make it light enough to carry. I am also sure there is magic on
the wizarding money to make it not possible to counterfeit
heiditandy says, we don't know how large they are - and they're not
shaped like Muggle money -
catlady_de_los_angeles says, The wizarding money is all boringly round.
Ron was amused at the 50p coin because it ISN'T round. That is a great
disappointment to those of us who wanted the Sickle to be crescent
shaped.
heiditandy says, no, I think the knuts aren't round. If they were, they
would stack and in the vault, they dont
fizzwhizbee says, Galleons can't be size of hubcaps, can they?
hert0661isme says, depends what size hubcaps! [Tim was telling me that
trucks (lorries) have little tiny hubcaps that cover only the hub
itself. He said the hub is really just the part of the axle that sticks
out and made a hand gesture indicating something like 2.5 inch diameter.
He said what we usually deal with are wheel caps.]
johnwalton_crazyivan says, And there are only three types of coin.
Silly!
catlady_de_los_angeles says, We don't know that there aren't two-knut
and 5-sickle and 20-Galleon and 100-Galleon coins
flying_ford_anglia says, Do they have notes... probably not
skaprincess27 says, It seems sort of irrational for them to carry around
large denominations in coin form.
hert0661isme says, paper money? you can't have that - modern muggle
invention!
fizzwhizbee says, Arthur seemed very unfamiliar with paper money
heiditandy says, sort of like the Pu in HitchHiker's Guide.
---
          /\ /\
           + +     Mews and views
         >> = <<         from Rita Prince Winston

                     ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._
                     `6_ 6  )   `-.  (     ).`-.__.`)
                     (_Y_.)'  ._   )  `._ `. ``-..-'
                    _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,'
                   ((('   (((-(((''  ((((