Bring Back Our Beans
Cody Lewis
March 2019
Beans. Nobody really knows where they come from. They magically appear in “pouches” everyone seems to carry around with them. Once upon a time, they were a reward for making good grades, submitting points, or being added to friend lists. You could even grow plants in the Hogwarts greenhouses and hock them off in exchange for beans at the Thrift Shop in Hogsmeade. That was up until both the greenhouses and Hogsmeade were temporarily closed during last year’s launch of HOL 5.
Today, beans are used almost exclusively as food for pet owls, cats, and toads. Forget the owl nuts and Meow Mix – a handful of beans every few days or so is evidently enough sustenance for any type of animal!
Gone are the days of amassing enormous chocolate frog card collections. Want to trade some beans for some potions ingredients from Dervish & Banges? Or a new textbook from Flourish & Blotts? Too late, they are no longer around (at least for now). Overnight, the value of HOL’s own cryptocurrency plummeted. With no goods to exchange them for, beans are worth about as much as Kibbles ‘n Bits.
Or so we thought.
Over the past few weeks, new students have taken to solicitation. Countless members have received messages from first years begging for whatever scraps they can get. If beans are obsolete, why is there such a high demand for them?
It’s basic economics. Supply and demand. We can no longer pawn our Mimbulus Mimbletonias at Hogsmeade, nor can we collect interest from Gringotts by hoarding beans by the thousands in our vaults. The supply of beans came to a screeching halt, so the demand for beans is at an all-time high. When Hogsmeade comes back, everyone wants to be the first in line to purchase whatever goodies might be available.
There is currently no set date for the relaunch of Hogsmeade and other sections of HOL are much greater priorities. But those of us who remember what it was like to check Gringotts on a weekly basis or finally claim that prime real estate in the greenhouses have one thing to say: Bring back our beans!
Editors' Note: Never fear, those functions will return! Please also note the SerpenTimes does not condone begging for beans and students have been asked not to do this.
Beans. Nobody really knows where they come from. They magically appear in “pouches” everyone seems to carry around with them. Once upon a time, they were a reward for making good grades, submitting points, or being added to friend lists. You could even grow plants in the Hogwarts greenhouses and hock them off in exchange for beans at the Thrift Shop in Hogsmeade. That was up until both the greenhouses and Hogsmeade were temporarily closed during last year’s launch of HOL 5.
Today, beans are used almost exclusively as food for pet owls, cats, and toads. Forget the owl nuts and Meow Mix – a handful of beans every few days or so is evidently enough sustenance for any type of animal!
Gone are the days of amassing enormous chocolate frog card collections. Want to trade some beans for some potions ingredients from Dervish & Banges? Or a new textbook from Flourish & Blotts? Too late, they are no longer around (at least for now). Overnight, the value of HOL’s own cryptocurrency plummeted. With no goods to exchange them for, beans are worth about as much as Kibbles ‘n Bits.
Or so we thought.
Over the past few weeks, new students have taken to solicitation. Countless members have received messages from first years begging for whatever scraps they can get. If beans are obsolete, why is there such a high demand for them?
It’s basic economics. Supply and demand. We can no longer pawn our Mimbulus Mimbletonias at Hogsmeade, nor can we collect interest from Gringotts by hoarding beans by the thousands in our vaults. The supply of beans came to a screeching halt, so the demand for beans is at an all-time high. When Hogsmeade comes back, everyone wants to be the first in line to purchase whatever goodies might be available.
There is currently no set date for the relaunch of Hogsmeade and other sections of HOL are much greater priorities. But those of us who remember what it was like to check Gringotts on a weekly basis or finally claim that prime real estate in the greenhouses have one thing to say: Bring back our beans!
Editors' Note: Never fear, those functions will return! Please also note the SerpenTimes does not condone begging for beans and students have been asked not to do this.