Werewolves and Money

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 178569

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Random832 <random832 at ...> 
wrote:
> 
> Or, rather more seriously, how _do_ werewolves who live within 
wizarding 
> society deal with money? Either they simply don't handle sickles 
(and 
> would have to explain this at every transaction); they wear 
gloves, use 
> tissue paper to isolate the coins from their hands, etc; or the 
coins 
> are in fact made of some base metal, rather than the silver (and, 
for 
> Galleons, presumably not gold either) that we've always thought 
they are.

Marianne:

I don't think JKR subscribes to the theory of silver being painful 
to werewolves.  Or, if she does, she shouldn't have had Remus using 
one of the Black family's silver goblets in OoP without showing it 
hurting him in some way.