[HPforGrownups] Re: HP Currency Converter @ CNN (was) Money, Trips, Cars,...

[rayheuer3 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 59442

bboy_mn at yahoo.com writes:

> I believe this may have come of the cover of some book that had the
> price in both dollars and galleons, but was obviously in error. Given
> the numbers they are using, I suspect they took the Galleon to Pound
> rate and used it as the Galleon to Dollar rate. 

I seriously doubt that they found even a mass-market paperback of any Harry 
Potter book for $3.99.  More likely they found a British paperback that said 
"£3.99 [14 Sickles, 3 Knuts)" and figured any adult lame enough to be interested 
in Harry Potter wouldn't care about the difference.

Although I dispute your implication that the Galleon to Dollar rate can only 
be determined by converting Galleons to Pounds and then Pounds to Dollars, we 
do agree on two things:

1.  One Galleon is roughly equal to £5 or $7.50
2.  The CNN converter program is so wildly inaccurate as to be useless.

  --  Ray

"Money makes the world go 'round" Cabaret


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