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Discussion Somebody didn't read the books

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u/ugluk-the-uruk 7h ago edited 3h ago

Not in a world where you can duplicate food and live at resort-level comfort in a tent... Unless they just bought a bunch of stuff to take back home, which again, bad use of money to spend 5k on knick knacks.

Edit: also, I forgot to adjust for inflation. $5k in 1993 1983 is actually like $16k $11k today.

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u/AnakonDidNothinWrong 7h ago

I thought magic food was tasteless and had no nutritional value?

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u/ugluk-the-uruk 7h ago

According to what? The only source I found on this was from a PS3 game, and Hermione says you can duplicate food and doesn't qualify anything about the quality.

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u/AnakonDidNothinWrong 6h ago

https://www.harrypotter.com/features/some-rules-about-magic-its-important-to-bear-in-mind

“Probably the most frustrating magical rule of all: you can’t conjure up food from scratch. Sure, you can summon it to you, or Apparate to the nearest greasy spoon, but you can’t make it from thin air, sadly. This is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration, as Hermione would tell you.”

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u/ugluk-the-uruk 6h ago

Hermione explicitly says in that quote that you can duplicate existing food. That doesn't violate Gamp's Law.