Sirius' Gringotts vault

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 6135

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Monika Huebner <monika at d...> wrote:
> >We don't KNOW that Gringotts vault are numbered in any logical 
way. 
> 
> No, we don't. The Goblins could use magic to find a vault if they 
are
> not numbered in a logical way, but it seems more likely to me at 
least
> that they are numbered "normally". If they were not numbered in a
> logical way, numbering them would not make any sense at all. 

Except that wizards do seem to have some sort of magical way of 
relating to numbers.  After all there are 29 sickles to the galleon 
and 17 knuts to the sickle, or maybe the other way around.  This 
implies that wizards must have a magical way to do arithmetic, since 
very few people can multiply by 29 or 17 in their heads.  Maybe the 
wizard number magic carries over into some bizarre system of 
numbering the Gringotts vaults.  Whatever the system is, it is clear 
that the magical community has a whole different science of 
mathematics than we muggles do.  That must be what Hermione is 
studying in her Arithmancy class.

--Joywitch