John is a bad, bad boy - Goblins, Polyjuice

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 15834

Joywitch wrote:
> Was I the only one struck by the irony of this statement in John's 
> last post:
> 
> >Let's all take a bit of a chill pill and remember that if we're 
> going to be sending an email, we should check it...[snip]...for 
> possible misconstruances, mistaken meanings etc. 
> 

Right.  We should check it carefully and make sure that it is 
chock-full of possible misconstruances, mistaken meanings, outright 
lies, dangerous rumors, etc.

Amanda:  Yes, I noticed your goblin theory and I wholeheartedly 
endorse it.  While I'm on the subject of Wise Things Amanda Has Said, 
I agree that JKR shouldn't use Polyjuice Potion again.  It would be 
okay for our side to use it 'cause the readers would know about it, 
but we'll be alert for another undercover DE, so I think it would be a 
weak plot device used a second time.

My thoughts on a rapidly aging post:

Amanda wrote:

>Sirius did use owl-order of some kind; in his
>letter to Harry at the end of PoA, he says "Crookshanks took the 
order
>to the Owl Office for me. I used your name but told them to take the
>gold from my own Gringotts vault."
>
>Which leads to the interesting question of why the goblins would 
allow
>access to anyone's vault who was not the owner, unless the owner
>authorized it. And if Sirius authorized it, why was this contact not
>reported to the authorities during the whole (pardon the expression)
>witch hunt for him? 

I find the latter not too hard to accept; as others have pointed out, 
Swiss banks are happy to hand funds over to clients who are known 
criminals, so why not goblin banks?  Add a long and hostile 
relationship between goblins and wizards, and I can see the goblins 
not caring a whit whether big bad Sirius Black uses his Galleons to 
escape, kills a lot more wizards and Muggles, whatever.  "It's a 
business transaction
what he does with his money is not our concern."

The former, however, is either incomprehensible or perhaps, raises 
some intriguing possibilities.  What bank would allow a child to take 
hundreds of Galleons (or whatever a Firebolt costs) from his 
godfather's vault?  UNLESS
Sirius specifically left instructions, when 
he was hustled off to Azkaban, that Harry should have access to that 
money.  I can see him doing that; he probably thought he would be dead 
within a few years, and we know he held himself responsible for 
destroying Harry's family.  I can definitely imagine Sirius thinking 
that the least he could do was turn his money over to Harry.  Crouch 
and Co. would just see it as a cynical bid for mercy-the man's just 
murdered the child's parents and now he wants to bequeath him his 
money?  Sick.

But this would mean that the MOM passed the information on to 
Gringott's but not to Harry.  Maybe they (the MOM) would have told him 
in time, when they deemed him old enough to hear the story?

This limb's getting kind of shaky.  I blame JKR . . . she's the one 
who wrote that weird sentence to begin with.

Amy Z

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   "Hagrid, look what I've got for relatives!" Harry
 said furiously.  "Look at the Dursleys!"
   "Excellent point," said Professor Dumbledore.
                          -HP and the Goblet of Fire 
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