So basically, now we know how much a wand actually costs at Ollivander’s.
As Harry Potter fans are well aware, wizards use a different form of currency from us Muggles.
It's a coin-based currency, consisting of three denominations: galleons, sickles, and knuts.
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Hagrid already explained the exchanges between denominations in the first book, but what we still didn't know is what these equal in Muggle money.
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UNTIL NOW. Industrious Reddit user aubieismyhomie went through the books and found out what things cost in galleons and sickles, then compared that to Muggle prices for similar objects.
For example, when Harry buys a bunch of candy off the train trolley in the first book, that costs 11 sickles and 7 knuts.
Other named prices in the books include:
A ride on the Knight Bus: 11 sickles
One hot chocolate: 2 sickles
A water bottle and toothbrush: 2 sickles
One Butterbeer: 2 sickles
Advanced Potion Making textbook: 9 galleons
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Using this, aubieismyhomie estimated how much wizard money would be compared to Muggle money.
"Based on this, a Butterbeer from the Hog's Head would be about $3 (as would hot chocolate on the Knight Bus), Harry bought about $18 of candy on the Hogwarts Express in his first year, and a high-level textbook costs about $175 (which Harry complained about how expensive it was)," the Reddit user wrote.
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