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Chapter 807: The Unprogressive Magic World

Fay took them up without saying anything. Fay gave them eighteen gold galleons, thirty-three silver sissiks, and twenty-nine bronze knuts.

"One gold Galleon is equal to seventeen Silver Sickles, and one Silver Sickle is equal to twenty-nine Bronze Knuts," Petunia explained to Harry.

Harry was stunned. No matter how ignorant he was, he knew that there were binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal systems. But why was it that the magic world's system was so different? Obviously, a child born in the Muggle world expressed appropriate confusion about this magical system.

He looked at the coin for a long time before he understood it and quickly thanked Faye. Because "Penny" didn't tell him how to take it, but Faye kindly helped him change two gold galleons, so that he could treat "Penny" to ice cream.

Fay nodded, but did not express any more feelings. This is the basic quality of a banker.

"I proposed changing to the decimal system, but it was rejected." Ou Mengmeng looked at Fei with condemnation.

Even the British government abolished the shilling in the 1s, changing the pound to 12 shillings, 1 shilling to 20 pence, and 1 pound to 100 pence. How simple and clear. But in 1991, the British wizarding world was still clinging to the standard of hundreds of years ago. It was too much.

She didn't say that every time she counted the money, she had to take a pen and paper, otherwise, she couldn't figure it out. Oh, by the way, electronic products are not allowed here, and you can't even bring in a calculator. Can life be more miserable?

"My dear, you can't ask everyone to change their habits just because you are not used to it." Fay said calmly. As a banker, how should he explain it to them?
In fact, the names can explain it. They are called Gold Galleon, Silver Sickle, and Copper Knut. These are not just names, but differences in materials. When they exchange, they are not exchanged at face value, but at the ratio of the value of gold, silver, and copper.

In fact, the Galleon is similar to the British pound in ancient times. The pound they used is actually a unit of weight. What does this mean? People are not talking about the face value, but the metal material and weight of the coin to determine the value. So the early British coins were actually based on silver. One pound of silver could be minted into 240 pennies. This is the origin of the previous system.

Later, paper money was issued, using national credit, so it was naturally more convenient to use a base. Is there such a thing as national credit in the magic world now? Fairies and magicians are two groups that are almost just for show, so they can only exchange in kind. There are too many things involved, and it would take a long time to explain, so he could only shut up.

"Okay, Feifei, bye. I'm going to school. Will you miss me?" Ou Mengmeng put her arm around Feiyi's little shoulders and asked a question.

She grew up on this street. She thought that when she went to school, they probably wouldn't miss the old man, but they would definitely miss her. Fairies also have marriages and families, otherwise how could fairies reproduce. But the birth rate in the magic world is not high. For example, Faye is an old bachelor. Ou Mengmeng doesn't even know how old he is. However, maybe this time she traveled through time since she was a child, her mentality has changed. She can keenly feel kindness. In the bank, Faye treated her differently, so she also relied on him and trusted him since she was a child.

"Oh, by the way, dear, this is a school gift from old Fay. Study hard." Fay seemed to remember something and snapped his fingers. A small bag appeared in his hand. He handed the bag to her and explained, "The bag can hold money and other things. There is also a quill pen in it. Don't you hate quill pens? This one has been modified. It can store ink like a Muggle pen and won't dirty your hands. Of course, you can also take notes. But, dear, this is not a tool for you to be lazy. You must study hard."

Harry and Draco were both envious. The old goblin seemed to dislike Petunia a little, but it was obvious that he loved her very much and remembered everything she said.

Of course, Penny must like this old man very much, otherwise, she wouldn't talk to them for no reason. Otherwise, this ugly old man wouldn't have specially prepared this gift.

"Fei Fei!" Ou Mengmeng was also touched. She hugged him and gave him a big kiss on the forehead. "You are much better than my dad. This year, he only sent me a postcard for my birthday." "Oh, dear!" Fei hugged Ou Mengmeng gently again, but didn't say anything else. For little Foster, sending a birthday postcard to his daughter is also a torture, right? But how to explain this to a child? He could only hug her again. His love for her was originally an extension of his love for this magician friend, and finally the feelings slowly sublimated.

"Will you come to see me?" Ou Mengmeng pushed him away and looked at Fei's face. This was also a character that did not exist in the book, which made her particularly happy. Because in this way, she didn't have to worry about the inertia of the original work. She could protect him wantonly without worrying about any chain reactions.

"My dear, goblins can't go to Hogwarts." Faye hugged Penny and thought about it. "Okay, okay, your grandfather will go to Hogsmore Village. We may need your grandfather to go with you to look at some documents."

"I love you." Ou Mengmeng hugged Fei Yi again and kissed him hard. She really liked this old man.

Now Draco and Harry no longer thought Faye was ugly, and instead saw some kindness in her.

Draco and Harry settled down in Diagon Alley, and Draco asked Dobby to deliver his old textbooks. Thus, Harry Potter, who was raised by Muggles, met another magical species in the wizarding world, the house elf.

He looks a bit like the goblins in Gringotts, but the difference is his aura. Dobby is a bit mental, and when he heard that old textbooks were needed, he brought all the old textbooks he could find at Malfoy's house.

A family that has been passed down for thousands of years will always leave behind some of its own heritage. And the Malfoy family still has a few top students, and the textbooks are full of notes, which represent knowledge.

"I can't believe you like this!" Draco was a little speechless as he looked at the pile of old books. They lived in the house above the shop, and Draco and Harry lived in the guest room together. Now the three of them were facing a pile of old books, and they could only express their respect for the Draco family's collection.

"Oh my God, Hogwarts is really so unmotivated that it has never changed the textbooks in all these years?" Ou Mengmeng was speechless. She picked up a few books at random.

The textbooks of the Platinum family were later rebound in beautiful calfskin, with the family crest of the Platinum family on the calfskin cover. So it was not a problem for Draco to put a silver cap on his wand. After all, who doesn't have this problem if they are rich?

Of course, when she saw his textbooks, she wanted to die. The earliest one in her family was from her grandfather. It hadn't changed in fifty years. But when she looked at Drake's ancestor's textbooks, they had been there for hundreds of years, right? The professional textbooks hadn't changed at all. What was that? It showed that your technology hadn't progressed!
"Really?" Harry also took out two spells textbooks, flipped through them, and was speechless to find that they were exactly the same. He couldn't help but widen his eyes and looked at Draco.

Draco hadn't seen it, but he didn't plan to. If they said it was, then it must be. Very aristocratic calm and composure!
"If that's the case, you should have it too, right?" Draco decided to change the subject.

"Well, I have three sets, spanning fifty years. But the education system of Hogwarts exceeded my lower limit. The textbooks have not been changed for hundreds of years. Oh, I was wrong. Maybe the history of magic is different. Yes, in the past ten years or so, Grandma Bathilda has rewritten the history of magic." Ou Mengmeng held up her head. This life is really unbearable. The education in the wizarding world is really frustrating.

Well, I really have to talk about Hogwarts.