Money and Squibs // Pettigrew

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 37873

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Eclipse <eclipse02134 at y...> wrote:
>    Two thoughts have occured to me. What keeps wizards
> from turning other things into money with
> Transfiguration?

I think the Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts come from some special 
magical source that can't be imitated (much less created) by 
Tranfiguration. Because of the old saying that "money doesn't grow 
on trees", I like to think that they grow on very rare magical trees 
that are kept under heavy guard, perhaps at the MoM. A similar 
possibility is that they are the droppings of some magical beast, but 
that page was torn out of the copy of FB that was duplicated for sale 
to Muggles. 

> Secondly could squibs make potions?
> There doesn't seem to be any magic used in the class.
> The students just put ingrediants in. The only
> difference between potions and chemistry is what goes in.

In my opinion, putting the ingredients into the cauldron and cooking 
them as directed wouldn't result in anything but a smelly mess, 
perhaps poisonous if the ingredients were poisonous to start with, 
but NOT a potion, UNLESS the ingredient were prepared and put into 
the cauldron and the cauldron was stirred by a person with magic. 
Therefore, not a Squib.

PETTIGREW:

Maybe I'll get around to writing something for the discussion 
questions. Meanwhile, I can add one: Why did the Sorting Hat put him 
in Gryffindor?