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Roya road story tracker4/4/2023 ![]() Are we assuming Oxford has magical courses? If not, she has a lot of catching up to do to get the necessary A-levels to be accepted. ![]() I get that you didn’t specify an exact amount – who wants to deal with imaginary currency exchange rates, arguing with fans whether to accept JK’s nonsensical answer, factoring in inflation, etc.?Ī point that I wondered about just because no character addressed it: like any Hogwarts student, Hermione dropped out of mainstream Muggle schooling at the age of 11. So in summary, I’m just not sure what you intended us to be thinking. But the idea of significantly contributing to the family fortune that Neville had? Kinda sounds like a lot more money than that. And paying her own way from the moment she’s an adult, rather than being funded by her parents, might make an independent soul like Hermione very happy. After all, a lump sum that is enough to live on without getting a full-time job, for a couple of years, is pretty awesome to most people (sure would be to me). Of course, it could well be you knew this. Easily affordable for a dual-income middle-class family. Just pay for the room, the food, and the books. I got the feeling that was what you wanted us to take away – she can afford something that even the daughter of 2 dentists would normally consider a gigantic expense!īut British universities in 1993? No tuition fees. Now I realise that in America, going to a top university requires truly terrifying amounts of money. It’s implied to be a pretty big deal that Hermione might be able to afford going “even without a scholarship”. When the money is discussed in chapter 36 and chapter 38, it’s talked of in terms of the cost of university, specifically Oxford. This is a questionable one – depending on whether I read your intention right, there might be something you don’t know. If you want to mention small denomination notes, the smallest we have is a £5 note, which we pronounce as a “five pound note”, or if we’re lazy, a “fiver”. You can have “pounds” either meaning £1 coins or meaning the currency as opposed to dollars or euros (or galleons). Our currency is known as “the pound”, and we have banknotes, which we usually just call notes… but a “pound note” is specifically a note worth £1, and the Bank of England withdrew those from circulation in the ’80s. In chapter 17 the Grangers exchange pound notes for galleons at Gringotts, and Harry has some pound notes to spend in Muggle London when Christmas shopping in chapter 37. By the way, the American “corned beef sandwich” looks great. ![]() I’m glad you don’t mind the Brit-picking. Clearly, they do not detract much from the story – I’ve somehow endured reading it about a dozen times, so. There’s a couple other minor Brit-picks from later in the story, but I won’t bother you with them if you’re not changing things. Ron’s right to look at Harry like he’s a little “mental”. □ For Harry to say that “his” corned beef never turns out so good… well, it just makes me chuckle. That is the sum total of “cooking” that goes into making a corned beef sandwich. ![]() Molly has opened a tin, cut off a few slices, and placed them between two bits of buttered bread. It’s basically SPAM made from cow rather than pig. ![]() Well, here in Britain, corned beef comes in only one form, sometimes called “bully beef” – precooked finely ground beef with a little gelatin and a load of salt, packed into a tin. I’ve learned that “corned beef” can mean different things to different people. Harry, determined to befriend Ron, really lays it on thick about how wonderful Molly’s cooking is… by praising a corned beef sandwich. On the chance you’re going over and editing chapters before posting them on Royal Road, there’s one little thing that always amuses/bugs me in the second chapter. ![]()
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