[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius' Gringotts vault

[Monika Huebner]

No: HPFGUIDX 6134

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:59:04 -0000, "Joywitch " <joym999 at aol.com>
wrote:

>I have always imagined that the note Sirius gave Crookshanks said 
>something like:  Send a Firebolt to Harry Potter at Hogwarts, and 
>take the gold from Gringotts vault number 711, password Abracadabra. 

Yes, he must have given the goblins a password because he could not
show up personally in London.

>It is very odd that the vault number was taken out of the American 
>edition, though.  But the 700 series vaults may not be high security, 
>just those that the goblins lock/unlock when given the correct 
>password 

Vault number 713 *is* a high securitiy vault. We are told so at page
107 of the American paperback edition of SS: "Did you hear about
Gringotts? It's been all over the Daily Prophet, but I don't suppose
you get that with the Muggles - someone tried to rob a high security
vault."

>Or, most likely, it is just something JKR 
>wrote down without really thinking about.

I don't think that Ms Rowling would write something like that without
thinking about it. Why are we told the number of the vault Hagrid
takes the philosopher's stone from? The number is not important at
all, the important thing is the stone itself. And we aren't told the
number of James' and Lily's vault. And it sounds very odd to me that
Sirius mentions the number of his vault in his letter to Harry. If you
buy a present for someone you normally would not tell him/her this
kind of detail, would you? It's just too weird.

Monika



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