In the fourth novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the idiom ‘not miss for the
world’ is changed into ‘not miss for a sackful of Galleons’. The muggle idiom
expresses the great anticipation of an event. The person in question is
determined to attend this event even if someone else offered something extraordinary
like the entire world in order to keep him from going.
In the novel
Amos Diggory, a colleague of Mr Weasley who is also working for the Ministry of
Magic is looking forward to such a sporting event: “’Quidditch World Cup,
wouldn’t miss it for a sackful of Galleons – and the tickets cost about that.’”[1]
Galleons, apart from Sickles and Knuts, are very valuable golden coins which
are used as currency in the wizarding world. A sackful of Galleons is extremely
valuable and is, for this reason, a very tempting offer in exchange for the
absence from a game. However, Diggory alleviates this argument immediately
stating that the price for the tickets was just as high. The offer of a sackful
of Galleons would, thus, only compensate the investment he has already made and
loses the temptation it was ascribed to at first.
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