Nia looked at the money in her hand. One hundred galleons. And she'd counted and checked it just to be sure. And according to the final, she had to get it changed for US dollars. She'd never been to America, but had seen enough American television programmes to know it was a decimal system just like the English muggles, but with dollars and cents as opposed to pounds and pence. Sounded simple enough. After that, who knew? It all seemed a bit mysterious really.

Approaching the people that seemed to be doing the exchanging, Nia looked for an exchange rate. She couldn't see one, and was sure exchange rates changed so what they used before wouldn't be right. She'd have to trust that they would get it right. On the plus side, there was no sign about taking commission (at least she thought that was was the cut the banks took was called), so she wouldn't have to worry about that.

"Hi," she said softly, to a money-exchanger that was free. "I'd like this changed to US dollars please." She counted what she had onto the counter. "100 galleons." She flicked her blonde hair back. "I'm assuming there's no commission charged?" she asked. She knew it was best to check -some places charged horrendous commission for foreign currency, and it could be worth an extra mark...