Flamel on the Net / Fiftypence shape

[drjennyfer]

No: HPFGUIDX 36207

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Ronald Rae Yu <ickle_ronniekins at y...> 
wrote:
> if there is a
> wizarding equivalent of internet, how could the search
> for Nicolas Flamel be that difficult? Hmm... well,
> let's say it doesn't exist yet in book 1 (don't think
> so, though), Hermione, who got home for the holidays,
> could try searching 'Nicolas Flamel' on the muggle
> internet and will at least get the information that he
> is the maker of the Philosopher's Stone (dunno about
> info on his work with Dumbledore). Well...?
> 
Since the purpose of the MoM is to keep wizard existence from
muggles, 
they are not going to publish information about a magical item such
as 
the Philosopher's Stone on the internet, just about the most 
accessible place for muggles.

> I just want this cleared up: what's the shape of a
> 50-pence coin for it to be thought of as weird by Ron?
> If it is polygonal, and wizard coins are round (we
> don't actually know, do we? the movie makes it round),
> then fine, weird it is. But if it is round, then it's
> a mistake on the movie's part to make the wizard coins
> round too. So... is fiftypence round or what? (I'm too
> lazy to look it up in the net.)
> 
> -Ron Yu

50 pences are 7-sided, silver coins. Even if we don't find foreign 
currency particularly weird, Ron probably would, since I don't think 
he's ever seen any money other than wizard money. OTH Arthur Weasley 
has muggle money at the Quidditch World Cup (when paying for the 
campsite), although he may just have had notes, which are a higher 
denomination. If muggle money is used by wizards in this situation, 
surely it is used at other times too.

Jen