Sirius' Gringotts vault
Susan McGee
Schlobin at aol.com
Mon Nov 27 02:41:25 UTC 2000
No: HPFGUIDX 6117
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Monika Huebner <monika at d...>
wrote:
>
> > I always wondered how Sirius managed to get his gold out of his
> > vault to pay for the firebolt. Until now we have only seen people
> > coming directly to Gringotts to take money from their vaults and
> > they have to bring the key to open them.
>
> And in GoF, Molly did the shopping for everyone while they were at
> the Quidditch Match, and JKR didn't show us Harry giving Molly his
> key.
>
> I think Gringotts goblins can open any vault without a key and just
> use the key as identification for the vault owner. I think people
can
> write a note to Gringotts saying take this much money out of my
> vault number so-and-so and give it to this person (Quality
Quidditch
> Supplies, in the Firebolt example) and there is an authenticatable
> signature on the note, as a form of identification other than the
> physical key.
>
> > In his letter at the end of PoA Sirius tells Harry that he took
the
> > gold from his own vault number 711. This vault happens to be close
> > to the one that contained the philosopher's stone which had the
> > number 713 and is located in Gringotts' high security area. Maybe
> > Sirius did not need a key to open his vault, but this led to the
> > question what he needed a high security vault for.
>
> We don't KNOW that Gringotts vault are numbered in any logical way.
> Vault 711 might be nowhwere vault 713, and not a high security
vault.
Just as house elves have their own powerful magic, my guess is that
Goblins have their own magic as well. Gringotts is like a Swedish
bank...no one can confiscate the money, and the Goblins protect
all their deposits with ferocity. Therefore, few thefts. Another
guess is that Sirius was able to instruct Gringotts to take the money
out of his store of funds to pay for Harry's Firebolt. Too bad he
can't instruct them to send him food.
Susan
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