"It was me," Snape said as he put away the equipment used for potion experiments.
"What?" Pomona said in surprise.
He looked at her as if she were being utterly ridiculous.
"No... how did you know?" she asked, confused.
"James Potter wanted to ask Lily out. Do you know how chaotic it is outside right now?" he said stiffly. "I don't believe the two of them can keep her safe."
She fell silent for a moment. Seeing that she said nothing, Snape continued washing the cauldrons.
"I told Lily that James liked her. She didn't believe me."
"So you told the headmaster and asked him to stop them from dating?" Pomona asked.
Angrily, he set the cleaned cauldron aside with an unpleasant clatter.
"And you, why did you agree?" he asked reproachfully.
"I've never been to a concert," she answered honestly.
"So you agreed to Sirius Black's invitation?"
She found him utterly baffling.
Snape had already turned and left the Potions classroom.
Marie Antoinette was known as the "Deficit Queen." In fact, whenever there was a fiscal deficit, aside from raising taxes and cutting expenses, there was another solution: printing money.
Coins were slower and more expensive to mint than banknotes, so the pace of runaway inflation was much slower as well.
As a centralized state, Marseille did not possess minting rights like the princes of the Holy Roman Empire. Generally, silver coins made from silver ingots were far more numerous, because both gold and silver coins had to be mixed with other metals. Otherwise, soft metals such as gold and silver wore down easily.
Gold and silver were actually formed through transmutation when stars died, not through the ancient so-called art of alchemy, or what some people considered primitive chemistry. Before dying, a star inevitably underwent expansion. A star