Save the Bachelor of Heaven

 Chapter 4057 4059 [Gringotts]

“Remember, don’t wander around, come back directly after shopping.” Erin warned, “Never go to Knockturn Alley. No matter how curious you are, never try to take risks.”

"I know, Mom." Xiang Nan nodded, then picked up a pinch of floo powder and threw it into the fireplace. After the flame turned green, he walked into the fireplace and shouted "Diagon Alley", and then It was teleported out.

 Floo powder can be teleported to any fireplace connected to the Floo network, including the Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, the Ministry of Magic, etc.

 The last time Xiang Nan went to Diagon Alley with his mother Irene, he could actually teleport there directly. However, because he had to contact the Evans family, he chose to teleport to the Leaky Cauldron.

Now that Xiang Nan goes to Diagon Alley by himself, there is no need to be so troublesome.

 After arriving in Diagon Alley, Xiang Nan first changed his appearance and makeup, and then went to Gringotts to exchange currency.

 Fan fiction often sets that Gringotts has a certain limit on currency exchange, usually fifty to two hundred galleons.

 But in fact, there is no such setting in the original novel.

The reason why this setting is added in fan fiction is that wizards are afraid that wizards will get a large amount of money from the Muggle world and use it to exchange for magical currency, which will lead to inflation in the magical world and even economic bankruptcy.

 But in fact they worry too much.

On the one hand, the exchange rate between magic currency and Muggle currency is floating and not fixed; on the other hand, it is not easy for wizards to make Muggle money.

 Because it can be seen from the original work that wizards have very limited knowledge of the Muggle world. Even someone like Arthur Weasley, who was quite curious about Muggles, did not understand daily necessities such as telephones, emails, subways, sockets, and even Muggle currency.

 Hence, if you do serious business with Muggles, it will be difficult for wizards to make money. And if you are trying to obtain ill-gotten gains through illegal activities such as stealing, robbing, abducting, and cheating, then the Ministry of Magic's prohibition on abuse of the Department of Magic is not unreasonable.

Mundungus Fletcher was searched by the Ministry of Magic because he sold Muggles some shrinking house keys. It can be seen that the Ministry of Magic enforces the law very strictly.

And most wizards have a condescending attitude towards Muggles. Even Muggle lovers like Arthur Weasley think they are stupid, so they don't bother making Muggle money.

 …

Besides, the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation in the wizarding world is very low.

Wizards are not very particular about their clothes, and most of them dress in flashy and eccentric ways. In terms of living, wizards are not very particular about their residence. The Weasley family's burrow seems to be built on a pigsty. In terms of work, wizards are not very particular. Broomsticks, floo powder, apparation, etc., each are much faster than cars, trains, and airplanes.

 The only exception is food, because wizards cannot directly conjure food, they can only deform or increase it.

 But Transfiguration can only change the appearance of something, but cannot change its interior. For example, you can use transfiguration to turn fish into cake, but it still tastes like fish in your mouth;

Food copied with a copying spell is just like forged banknotes and fakes. It looks like food, but in fact it has no nutrition when eaten and does not resist hunger at all.

So in the original "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", when Neville, Seamus, Ginny and others were hiding in the Room of Requirement, they had no way to get food and had to rely on the owner of the Pig's Head Bar, Aberforth Dumble. Lido provides them.

If the copying spell works, they can use the copying spell to copy a large amount of food once and for all. But that is obviously ineffective.     But the price of British food has never been high. In the 1970s, a liter of milk cost ten pence, a dozen eggs cost thirty pence, and a kilogram of beef cost seventy pence.

One pound can be exchanged for one hundred pence, so even a poor family like the Snape family, relying on unemployment benefits of three hundred pounds a month, can still buy four hundred kilograms of beef, three thousand liters of milk and one thousand dozen eggs. Therefore, Having a full meal is no problem.

It's just that Tobias Snape likes to drink and spends a lot of relief money to buy alcohol, so the Snape family's life seems to be in embarrassment. Of course, there is still no problem with filling your stomach, it’s just that eating is relatively poor.

Therefore, in the wizarding world, even a poor family like the Weasley family has no shortage of sausages, cream, eggs, butter, bread, etc. Arthur Weasley's salary alone can support a family of seven. .

Therefore, in the wizarding world, except for a few people, such as Mundungus Fletcher, Borgin Burke, Horace Slughorn, Ron Weasley, etc., other people’s money concepts Not heavy.

There are also many people who regard money as dirt, such as Sirius Black who disdains inheriting family inheritance; Albus Dumbledore said that he has too much property and it doesn't matter if he throws away more; Nick Flamel donated a large amount of wealth to Beauxbatons …

 …

 Hence, very few wizards would get a large sum of money from the Muggle world and go to Gringotts to exchange it for gold galleons.

 Those who know how to do this have already done so. For example, the Malfoy family relied on the support of the British royal family to obtain fiefs and noble titles, and made a lot of money through this.

 It was not until the implementation of the International Statute of Secrecy that they cut themselves off from the Muggle world and used the huge wealth they gained from the Muggle world to become the upper echelons of the wizarding world.

Those who want to do this cannot do it due to their own abilities and the restrictions of the Ministry of Magic. Like Mundungus Fletcher.

 He ​​was a thief, broker and liar. Taking advantage of Sirius's death, he actually swept away his family's silverware.

A person as greedy and unscrupulous as he must be happy to cheat money from Muggles. But the most he can do is buy, sell, and cheat, and he will never dare to defraud large sums of money.

 Most wizards are not very interested in money. Even poor people like Arthur Weasley and Remus Lupin, although their lives are not rich and they often face the trouble of lack of money, they have never used their brains.

So no wizards obtained a large amount of Muggle currency and exchanged it for magical currency, causing inflation and economic bankruptcy in the wizarding world. Naturally, Gringotts will not set a limit on the exchange of Muggle currency for magical currency.

 …

Xiang Nan handed over one hundred thousand pounds and "converted them all into Galleons."

“You want to exchange so much Muggle currency? Do you have legal proof of the money?” The goblin on the counter looked at Xiang Nandao carefully.

 It is rare to exchange such a large amount of money, and it requires Xiang Nan to confirm the source of the money. Otherwise, it is impossible to redeem. After all, Gringotts is a wizarding bank, a serious company, not a place for criminals to sell stolen goods and launder money.

At the same time, there are also looking glasses, demon mirrors, secret detectors, black magic detectors, etc. placed in the goblin counter. If Xiang Nan has something in his heart, he will definitely not be able to escape its detection.

 (End of this chapter)