On the Subject of Money

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch 
> <rowena_grunnion_ffitch at y...> wrote:
> >    Does anybody have any idea how Galleons compare to
> > pounds/dollars?
> 
> JKR said that a Galleon is worth five pounds (around seven 
> dollars), which correlates with the values stated in Dumbledore's 
> prefaces to the textbooks as to how much money Comic Relief has 
> raised for charity, but doesn't correlate with most of the other 
> references to money in canon. The other references all make 
> more sense if a Galleon is in the $25 to $40 range.


I don't think Jo really designed any consistency with money in the 
books.  They were just color.  "17 sickles an ounce for dragon 
liver?!" when a galleon is 17 sickles.  13 sickles for a ride on the 
knight bus, 15 gets you hot chocolate too.

Of course, I could be wrong.  It could be simply that the wizard 
economy fluctuates wildly against the english pound. (I keep wanting 
to write point instead of pound for some reason.  What's that say 
about me?  Nevermind. I don't want to know.)

Some weeks, the galleon is worth 40 pounds, and other times, it's 
worth 5.  Hmm.  Maybe this is how some wizards make money.  They 
speculate on the differences.