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[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 59493

bboy_mn at y... 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. 


rayheuer3 at a... wrote:
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.


Hello all, Fred Waldrop here:

If I am not mistaken, the $3.99 = 14 sickles, 3 knuts comes from 
the "Fantastic Beast & Where to find them book," or "Quidditch 
Through the Ages". Seeing that both cost $3.99 each, both probably 
say the same thing.
I do know that in the forward of both books it says this:
"Widespread amusement is converted into large quantities of money 
(over $250 million dollars since they started in 1985 - which is 
equvalent to 174 million pounds or 34 million Galleons).

Hope that helps;

Fred Waldrop