[HPforGrownups] About Gringotts Rubies (was: Re: Harry PotterA Worthwhile series??)

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 33659

  Greetings!

> Katie wrote to us in her wisdom:

> (...)
>> Kevin wrote:
>>       Analogy and Simile struggles:
>>       "...weighing a pile of rubies as big as glowing coals."  (How big 
>> are glowing coals?)

k> Most of them are a couple of inches in all directions (charcoal, anyone?).

k> (...)

k> Katie

  That depends on the wood you burn. They can be as small as
1cm in diameter to a couple of centimeters. I have never
seen a charcoal several _inches_ in diameter, despite my
extensive outdoors experience.
  (Here, saying "glowing charcoal" I mean a charcoal that
actually glows by every square millimeter of it's surface,
not just a remnants of a big log).

  Nonetheless, those where COOL rubies! :)

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
who is still waiting for List Elves to approve his reply to
Kevin Kimball's letter... oh that newbie status... :)