23 Things You Only Understand If "Harry Potter" Fans Are Your People

Mischief management requires a squad.

There's that crucial, charged moment after someone asks if you're into Harry Potter where you have to gauge how much they're really ready for.

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And you know exactly the questions to ask to figure out just how compatible your fandoms are.

"So...how do you feel about Snape's relationship to Lily Evans?"

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Once they've passed the test, you go from lone obsessed fan to beautiful fan community.

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It's like sharing a hometown, but somehow deeper.

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Someone Calculated How Much Wizard Money Is Worth In "Harry Potter"

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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42 Questions We Still Have About The Wizarding World

How do taxes work???

J.K. Rowling crafted a thoroughly beloved world with the Harry Potter series and all of its offshoots.

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But we still have some questions.

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1. What are wizard taxes like?

2. What's the deal with secondary school in the wizarding world? Are there just specialized vocational schools, or do they have general wizarding universities for those who want a higher education but don't know exactly what they want to do in life?

3. And is there any sort of process in place for magical folk who want to go to muggle universities?

4. Do wizards learn math at all outside of the (optional) arithmancy classes?

5. How do wizard currencies work for traveling wizards going country-to-country? For instance, what's the wizard currency like for kids at Uagadou?

6. Some wizard kids attend muggle schools until Hogwarts, but if that's the case, why are so many wizards still ignorant to muggle customs when there's that big cultural crossover?

7. How many students actually went to Hogwarts?

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Did You Know That Snapchat Is Secretly Eating All Of Your Data?

GIGABYTES, you guys.

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30 Hella Easy Ways To Seriously Transform Your Old Jeans

Style is in your ~jeans~.

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A Guy Asked His Wife What Was On Her Mind, So She Drew It Out

“Where is that one thing I can’t find from two years ago?”

Reddit user bpwwhirl's wife sometimes has trouble falling asleep, so he recently asked her to draw her thoughts to ease her mind.

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Her response is equal parts hilarious, sweet, relatable, and revealing.

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For example, not everything on her brain is super complicated.

Although, boobs not staying in bras is what female nightmares are made of.

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And her husband is clearly a source of pure happiness.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Is Turning A YA Novel About The Apocalypse Into A Movie

The film will be based on The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson.

The world of YA just got a whole lot more exciting. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Leonardo DiCaprio recently bought the movie rights to an upcoming novel, The Sandcastle Empire by Kayla Olson.

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The actor will be producing the movie along with filmmaker Jennifer Davisson, who also produced the Oscar nominated film, The Revenant.

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The Sandcastle Empire is going to be about a young woman named Eden who fights with a group of other women for their survival in the year 2049 "when the Earth is at a breaking point due to climate change."

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DiCaprio has been very public about his beliefs on climate change. He has his own foundation that's "dedicated to the long-term health and wellbeing of all Earth’s inhabitants."

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