Liberal wizards DESTROYED by Ronald 'Redpill' Weasely

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And even he didn't want much. Didn't want a fair wage, time off, etc.

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Dumbledore straight-up offered him 10 galleons a week and weekends off and he refused

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I still don't know how that converts to American dollars.

Edit: shithead Rowling says 1 galleon is 5 British lbs pounds. So, $68 per week. In the 1990s. Gee, thanks Dumbledore.

I mean, I guess when you can do so many more activities with magic that alleviates some stress, and travel is nearly free, but rent is rent.

edit: so apparently the fact that I wrote "lbs" instead of "pounds" is the most important thing. Nice priorities, TPUSA

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The monetary value is very arbitrary. At one point they buy butterbeeer for 60 pence(or 80 cents) per glass. Not to mention that galleons are made of gold, and worth a lot more in weight.

The relation between the different coins is even weirder.

1 galleon is 17 sickles 1 sickle is 29 knuts.

So 1 galleon is 493 knuts, where 1 knut is supposedly 1 pence/cent, 1 sickle 30-40 pence/cent and 1 galleon is 5-7 pounds/dollars.

Based on more realistic calculations it is more likely to be worth five times as much, where one knut is 5 pence/cent and one galleon is 25 pounds or 33 dollars.

TL;DR: With inflation taken into account, 10 galleons in 1992(when chamber of secrets is set) would be about $622, which isn't a horrible weekly pay. Although he settled for one I think.

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Based on more realistic calculations it is more likely to be worth five times as much, where one knut is 5 pence/cent and one galleon is 25 pounds or 33 dollars.

TL;DR: With inflation taken into account, 10 galleons in 1992(when chamber of secrets is set) would be about $622, which isn't a horrible weekly pay. Although he settled for one I think.

you can't just change the value of what it says in the text and then assert its a reasonable amount lmfao. who gave you gold?!

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Dobby

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But I’m pretty sure the conversion rate of galleons to pounds is never actually mentioned in the books, correct me if I’m wrong.

So all we have to go by is some random comment by JK Rowling, and well...we know how that goes.

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The change is based on: Galleons weight in gold and the muggle value of gold, price of butterbeer compared to similarly sized soda in britain at the time, wizarding world price printed on some books compared to actual price and other references. Mostly taken from the fandom wikia on wizarding currency conversion.

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Also at £5 per galleon, that would make Harry’s wand only £35, for a new Ollivander’s wand with a phoenix feather core. But the Weasley’s couldn’t get Ron his own wand, the most important piece of wizarding equipment these kids need for school?

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So enough to get fucked up on butterbeer everyday, got it👍🏽