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Chapter 4057 4059 [Grillingotts]

"Remember, don't wander around. Come back directly after buying something." Irene warned, "Never go to Knockturn Alley. No matter how curious you are, never try to take risks."

"I understand, 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 was immediately teleported out.

Floo powder can be used to teleport 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 have teleported directly there. However, because he had to meet up with the Evans family, he chose to teleport to the Leaky Cauldron.

Now that Xiang Nan can go to Diagon Alley by himself, it naturally doesn't require so much trouble.

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

Fan fiction often sets the currency exchange limit at Gringotts to be between fifty and 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 because there is a fear that wizards will get a large sum of money from the Muggle world and use it to exchange for magical currency, thus leading to inflation in the magical world and even economic bankruptcy.

But in fact, they were worrying too much.

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

Because from the original book, we know that wizards know very little about the Muggle world. Even someone like Arthur Weasley, who is quite curious about Muggles, does not understand daily necessities such as telephones, mail, subways, sockets, and even Muggle currency.

Therefore, it is difficult for wizards to make money if they do business with Muggles. And if they try to obtain ill-gotten gains through illegal activities such as stealing, robbing, kidnapping and cheating, then the Ministry of Magic will not tolerate any abuse of magic.

Mundungus Fletcher was searched by the Ministry of Magic because he sold some shrinking house keys to Muggles. This shows that the Ministry of Magic enforces the law very strictly.

Moreover, most wizards have a condescending attitude towards Muggles. Even a Muggle lover like Arthur Weasley would think they are stupid, so they disdain to make money from Muggles.

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

Wizards don't care much about their clothes. Most of them wear gaudy and strange clothes. Wizards are not too particular about where they live. The Weasley family's Burrow seems to be built on a pigsty. When it comes to transportation, wizards have flying brooms, Floo powder, Apparition, etc., each of which is much faster than cars, trains, and planes.

The only exception is food, because wizards cannot directly conjure up food, they can only transform or increase the amount of food.

  But Transfiguration can only change the appearance of things, not their inner qualities. For example, if you use Transfiguration to turn fish into cake, it still tastes like fish when you eat it.

Food copied with the cloning spell is like counterfeit money or fake goods. It may look very similar to food, but in fact it has no nutrition and does not satisfy your hunger at all.

So in the original book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", when Neville, Seamus, Ginny and others hid in the Room of Requirement, they had no way to get food and could only rely on Aberforth Dumbledore, the owner of the Hog's Head Inn, to provide them with food.

If the cloning spell worked, they could have used it to copy large quantities of food once and for all. But it obviously didn't work. However, the price of food in the UK has always been low. In the 1970s, a liter of milk was ten pence, a dozen eggs were thirty pence, and a kilogram of beef was seventy pence.

One pound could be exchanged for one hundred pence, so even a poor family like the Snape family could still buy 400 kilograms of beef, 3,000 liters of milk and 1,000 dozen eggs with 300 pounds of unemployment benefits a month, so there was no problem in having enough food.

It was just that Tobias Snape liked to drink and spent a lot of his relief money on alcohol, so the Snape family seemed to be in a difficult situation. Of course, there was still no problem filling their stomachs, but the food was relatively worse.

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

So in the wizarding world, except for a few people, such as Mundungus Fletcher, Borgin and Burke, Horace Slughorn, Ron Weasley, etc., other people do not attach great importance to money.

Many people even regarded money as dirt. For example, Sirius Black disdained to inherit the family estate; Albus Dumbledore said that he had too much wealth and it didn't matter if he spent more; Nick Flamel donated a large amount of wealth to Beauxbatons...

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Therefore, very few wizards would get a large sum of money from the Muggle world and exchange it for gold Galleons at Gringotts.

Those who would do this have already done so. For example, the Malfoy family relied on the support of the British royal family to obtain fiefdoms and noble titles, and used this to amass a large amount of money.

It was not until the implementation of the International Statute of Secrecy that they cut off ties with the Muggle world, and used the huge wealth they seized from the Muggle world to become the upper class in the wizarding world.

Those who want to do this cannot do so due to their own abilities and the restrictions of the Ministry of Magic, such as Mundungus Fletcher.

He was a thief, broker and liar who took advantage of Sirius's death to steal all the silver from his family.

A person like him who is greedy for money and forgets his principles would definitely be happy to cheat money from Muggles. But at most he would only engage in small-scale frauds such as buying and selling, cheating and deceiving, and would 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 they are not rich and often face the trouble of lack of money, have never used crooked ideas.

Therefore, no wizards would bring in large amounts of Muggle currency to exchange for magic currency, which would cause inflation and economic bankruptcy in the wizarding world. Gringotts would naturally not set a limit on the amount of Muggle currency that could be exchanged for magic currency.

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Xiang Nan handed over the 100,000 pounds and said, "Change them all into Galleons."

"You want to exchange so much Muggle currency? Do you have legal proof of the money?" The goblin at the counter looked at Xiang Nan with scrutiny.

It was rare to exchange such a large sum of money, and it required Xiang Nan to verify the source of the money. Otherwise, it would be impossible to exchange it. After all, Gringotts was a wizard bank, a legitimate company, not a place for criminals to sell stolen goods and launder money.

At the same time, the fairy counter is also equipped with a peephole, a magic mirror, a mystery detector, a black magic detector, etc. If Xiang Nan has something to hide, he will definitely not escape its detection.

(End of this chapter)