Sirius' Gringotts vault

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 6138


> 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. 

Of course, we don't know what's normal for goblins. The Library of 
Congress now shelves books by dimensions of the book, size and shape, 
not subject, since the computer can find it no matter where they put 
it and it saves a lot of space to store things together that are of 
the same size. It doesn't seem logical or normal to us, who are used 
to the Dewey system and libraries organized for humans to find 
things, but it makes perfect sense in that context. So who knows what 
the goblins' system is, especially since the carts are not steered or 
directed by the goblin but purely by magic.

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
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