For Muggle Borns, special representatives from the wizarding community are sent to walk them through each process, including how to access Diagon Alley and locating platform Nine and Three Quarters. As for Money, you can exchange Muggle money for Galleons, Sickles and Knuts at Gringotts, the Wizarding Bank.
How are you supposed to buy lacewing flies and broomsticks? Rowling explained on Twitter that non-wizarding folk could just go to Gringotts, the wizarding bank in London's Diagon Alley. They change muggle money to wizard money. It makes sense, and Rowling hinted at this before.
The entire currency exchange is being driven by Muggle-born wizards like Hermione Granger. As illustrated throughout the novels, Hermione constantly buys Galleons with her family's Muggle money.
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the 10,000-galleon reward offered to anyone who caught Azkaban escapee Sirius Black would be worth $250,000 in Muggle money, according to the Reddit thread.
They could, in practice, duplicate muggle money, but would need to learn the exchange, and many wizards have taken a very patronizing stand about Muggles. Their money is seen as a curiosity - as we see Monopoly money.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
For instance, the seven galleons Harry paid for his wand at Olivander's was probably priced around $175. According to the conversion rate, he gave Fred and George Weasley $25,000 to start their joke shop.
During a live chat in 2001, the author revealed that one galleon is equal to around five British pounds, which is about $7, using the exchange rate at the time.
Ron, Auror (1600 - 2000 Galleons/$40-50,000)
However, after this, he went on to work for his brother at Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. During his time as an Auror, though, he probably earned around 1600-2000 Galleons, based on the average earnings of intelligence, miliary, and police officers in the UK.
NeokratosRed used their majorly impressive mathematical skills to calculate that there's a minimum of 50,625 galleons in Harry's vault. Since we know one galleon is equal to around $25, the minimum amount of money in Harry's vault is a mind-blowing $1,265,625!
At 7 galleons, Harry paid ~$175 for his wand.
Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood. There are three main blood statuses; pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle-born, which are all methods of determining a witch or wizard's magical lineage.
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After Fred and George Weasley confessed that they had lost all their money and, with it, their dreams of opening a joke shop, Harry decided to give them his Triwizard Tournament prize money— a whopping 1,000 Galleons.
The Weasleys
' We finish on a family who are technically quite pure-blood, but are deemed 'blood traitors' by various peers, and seem proud of it. It is, indeed, the Weasleys' compassion and morals that led to several members marrying half-bloods, Muggle-borns, etc.
His viciousness to Muggle-borns is connected: Riddle may be half-blood, but Muggle-borns can claim no wizarding heritage, therefore to him they are as low as Muggles themselves. Riddle also hates Muggles because they remind him of his childhood and the Muggle father who deserted him.
Slytherin disliked taking students from Muggle families, seeing them as untrustworthy and unworthy of being taught magic, and tried to persuade the other founders to only take students from pure-blood families.
If a Muggle were to look at Hogwarts, for example, all they would see is a ruin with signs telling them to keep out. Some magical locations are sequestered entirely from the Muggle world – with Diagon Alley, in particular, being accessible through a number of gateways between the two worlds.
As the eldest of three sisters, Bellatrix was first in line to inherit their parents' possessions when they died. She also would have merged her assets with those of her husband, Rodolphus Lestrange (another bloodline featured in the Sacred Twenty-Eight). The most convincing proof lies in Bellatrix's vault.
Having rendered unknown, shady (and almost certainly magical) services to King William I, Malfoy was given a prime piece of land in Wiltshire, seized from local landowners, upon which his descendants have lived for ten consecutive centuries.
One of the wealthiest Wizarding families in Britain, the Malfoys were known for their connections to other pureblood families and their covert influence over the magical government. In contrast to the Weasleys, the Malfoys were traditionally sorted into Slytherin and supported pureblood supremacy.
The Weasley family was not wealthy compared to other wizarding families. Many other pure-blood families, particularly the Malfoys, disdained them for their "blood traitor", pro-muggle beliefs and their lack of wealth.
The Triwizard Tournament prize money
The prize? 1000 Galleons - £4,930.
Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley)
She has also acted in several independent films and TV shows since too. She is also a screenwriter and director, writing 'Separate We Come, Separate We Go' - a 2012 short-film. Her net worth is around $4 million.
They used different currency
We know that by the eighteenth century, North American wizards used the Dragot – which seems to be the equivalent to the UK Galleon.
In decreasing order of value, they are: Galleon, Sickle and Knut. They are gold, silver, and bronze, respectively.
Harry's wand from Ollivanders cost 7 galleons, which comes out to only about $175. Not bad, considering it had a phoenix feather in it and could cast all kinds of awesome spells and stuff.