It's the magical economy, stupid.

You are listening to the Quibbler podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club that's stuck in the 90s.

And all of a sudden, a knife-sharp memory came to him, standing on this very spot on the day that he had turned 11, the most wonderful birthday of his life,

and Hagrid standing beside him saying,

Like I said, you'd be mad to Troy and Robbett.

Gringotts had seemed a place of wonder that day.

The enchanted repository of a trove of gold he had never known he possessed.

And never for an instant could he have dreamed that he would return to steal.

I'm Heather Pricewright.

And I'm Alex Dellenberg.

And we are about to go extremely old school quibbler this episode because we are reading the chapter from

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows called Gringuts. So we're going to talk about money up in here

and wizards are so bad at money with money for money. Their money is the worst. It doesn't make

any sense at all. It's very, very heavy, among other things.

Like literally just the weight of their money is really concerning to me.

So, spoilers, one of the spoilers being, they're bad with money.

Also cursing, lots of cursing, and some adult themes. You guys know the drill.

This week's adult themes. You guys know the drill. This week's

adult themes are cash is king, second degree burns, DNA evidence, flagship attractions,

and truly winging it. Speaking of winging it, Alex, he doesn't wing it at all.

He writes these down, I promise.

It's more of a pseudo-winging it.

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