West put his hand up. "The money thing, Its a simplification right? Like, its more that precious metals can't be transfigured I think, and that extends to money, and that kind of relates to the food thing right? Because of the minerals and all. So its kind of like, some of the exceptions are like.... concepts and a bit wishy washy, like love or life or information; those aren't tangible in the same way." Right?


"But food and money are more tangible. The value of those things feed into the value of the intangible stuff too. Like almost, if you could do one, you could probably do all the others too. But money, it hasn't even existed for all that long, compared to the other things I mean. And the value of some money is implied, like how muggles use paper money. Maybe its a mix of the complicated mineral thing, and the complicated intangible value that we put on money?"

He liked that word. TANGIBLE. West put his hand down and grasped at the air a few times, like he was touching intangible things.