Movie money

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 21152

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., dfrankis at d... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> > That's what I thought at first too. But then one of my British 
> > friends pointed out that the coin Ron was referring to in that 
> > passage is in fact hexagonal (or is is septagonal?) and that 
> > indicates that Wizard money is almost certainly round. 
> 
> it's septagonal.  So is the smaller 20p.  It seems very un-British, 
> doesn't it?  More like the old (ie Communist era) Albanian 3 Lek
> note.

Nitpick: the word is "heptagonal" and the object is a "heptagon".
"septem" is Latin, but "heptagon" comes from the Greek (as do all
the other geometric figure names ending in "-gon" ("angle").

....Craig