Harry Potter Article: What's the point of wizarding money?

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posted by hunterkf5732

I recently found a strange contradiction in the concept of wizarding money.I'd like to know if my idea is true or if there is a counter-argument against it.

In pg.65 of HP and the Chamber of Secrets,we learn that Muggle money can be exchanged into wizarding money.

We also know that potentially valuable(in a Muggle point of view) objects such as chairs can be Conjured by magic(eg:Dumbledore does this in the courtroom in HP and The Order of the Phoenix).

So any wizard who knows basic Transfiguration can Conjure objects such as chairs,sell them to Muggles to obtain Muggle money and then exchange this money into Galleons,thus obtaining an infinite amount of wealth.

Doesn't this contradict the whole point of wizarding money?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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ILUVKOWALSKI Woah. :o Well, I can only guess there's a law preventing wizards from doing this.

Flickerflame We know there are 5 things which can't be created through magic. Food is one of them. Wizards would therefore need money to buy food, and the other unnamed four. I do think that a magical currency, as opposed to using the pound, was just created to make them different.

Flickerflame I'd imagine that there are laws against overusing the conjuration idea, in case Muggles would get suspicious when someone turned up with far too many chairs too quickly, in less time than a normal person could ever make or buy as many. And a lot of pureblood wizards would struggle selling to Muggles anyway, because their lack of understanding of anything regarding the Muggle world is that strong. I could imagine some, like the Malfoys, refusing the idea because it'd mean interacting with Muggles.