Matilda couldn't stop beaming. Class had only just started and she could see the galleons dangling in front of her already. She made a grab for it, hand in the air.

"The United Kingdom uses pounds, and in exchange rate, is higher than the American dollar. The Japanese yen is worth least of the three."

Cadence looked at Melanie and shook her head at the question asking her if they minded. Of course not! She said to her.

She smiled as Melanie and Ana both correctly answered the Professor's questions. That was already 6 more points for Hufflepuff, not to mention all the other Hufflepuffs in the class. There were a lot of really smart students in this class. Cadence waited for the Professor's next words.

Since Lizzie had answered the professor's question she quickly turned to Chris while waiting for the professor to say something more. She smiled widely, teasing Chris a bit. You didn't know that one? Ooh, I guess you were right about my advantage in this class.. She giggled.

Elan was twisting this way and that as a flurry of students answered the question. He was curious why the professor had not asked of Italy. Perhaps he had a bias against Italy. He saw his friends Aggie and Tobi and some other students he knew and smiled, waiting for the next question.

Anna raised her hand to reply. She was pretty sure she knew the answer to this question. "Here in the United Kingdom, sir, we use the pound sterling. In the United States, they use dollars and coins. Finally, the Japanese use what's called yen," she said.

Sarah said excitedly," In the UK they have Pounds, in the USA they have American Dollars & in Japan they use Yen!" sir.

Tobi jerked to the side, nearly falling out of his seat but recovering quickly. He'd probably expire from shame if he caused a ruckus in class. The goals this year were NOT to cause a stir, NOT to shame his house, NOT to get killed in a carniverous plant attack.

He glared at Aggie. "Do you mind?" he growled under his breath.

Chris raised hhis hand " In the United Kingdom,we use the pound . In the United States, they use dollars and coins. And the Japanese use yens,"

Obviously Nathaniels death glare hadn't worked before. He looked at the two of them with malice. And whispered "Will you both knock it off! We don't nee to lose anymore points. Pay attention to class!". They were obviously thick in the head.

"For those of you who answered that the U.S. uses the dollar, the U.K. uses the pound and Japan uses the yen, you are correct," Antonio said. "There is also a Euro-Dollar, which is very important, and other countries use the dollar as currency as well, amongst them Canada and Australia. But, the value of the dollar in different countries is different, and that's what we are going to learn about next.

Before we do that, though, I would like to have you all work on converting wizarding money into the United States dollar. To start, I want to see if you can figure out $100.00 in United States money is equal to in wizarding world money. Everyone, go ahead and use your calculators to perform this exercise, please. We'll be using this calculator a bit more then move on to the other calculator, then the second part of the lesson."

Varius raised his hand, "20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts"

Chris's hand shot into the air. "it would be 20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts sir!"

Nathaniel worked the calculations as fast as he could. "$100 US dollars converted is 20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts" he said with a grin.

Yet again, Matilda's hand shot up, her parchment blank. "100 dollars is 20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts, sir."

Miranda calculated as quick as she could, and raised her hand. "20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts"

Allie raised her hand.
" Its 20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts." she said.

Frowning ever so slightly, Evangeline followed Professor Dumont's instructions and calculated how much §100.00 were in wizarding money. Hmmm. "Would that be 20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts, Sir?"

Lasca did the math and then raised her hand. "$100 U.S. dollars is equal to 20 Galleons, 13 Sickles, and 17 Knuts Professor."

Aggie gave Tobi only the briefest of glances. “Course I mind, but you were being rude.” Aggie wondered how boys had just bad manners. As she watched Professor Dumont move around the front of the classroom, she got an idea. Hogwarts should teach some more etiquette classes, because certainly the ones offered to the boys at Cooper’s School didn’t stick very well, especially in Tobi’s case.

Of course, that idea was lost the moment Professor Dumont smile and asked another question. Aggie tossed her hand into the air. “0 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts”

Ana raised her hand "20 galleon 13 sickles and 17knuts". She saw Melanie and smiled to her.

Karma scribbled on her paper furiously. Those Gryffindors really needed to put a cauldron in it.

"Honestly," she hissed as a fellow Gryffindor told them to hush.

After using the calculator, she figured it out, and proudly raised her hand.

"Professor, one hundred US dollars in Wizarding money is 20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts, sir."

Barry typed it in his calculator and said "20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts"

Jake raised his hand again. "It says here, 20 galleons, 13 sickles and 17 knuts."

He hoped to High Hogwarts he didn't have a faulty converter.