Black's Bank Account???

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22391

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., toomanyideas at a... wrote:
> The issue of SB's bank account bothered me a little more with each 
> reading--and now after my fourth (this time read out-loud to my 
eight 
> year old)--I really have alot of questions about the procurement of 
> the Firebolt.
> 
> 1) If a wizard is sent to Azkaban, would they seize his bank 
holdings 
> at Gringott's?
> 
> 2) If an owl brings an order to remove funds from a famous 
horrible, 
> recently-escaped prisoner's account, wouldn't the MOM have to be 
> notified?
> 
> 3) Is his account under someone else's name perhaps?  Maybe it's 
under 
> Padfoot...
> 
> 4) Also, when McGonnagal got hold of the broom, wouldn't she have 
had 
> the power to do some "tracking" on it?
> 
> Just wondering if anyone else has spent any brain cells on this one


This has been discussed before.  Someone pointed out that Gringotts 
may work sort of like a Swiss bank.  In other words, no questions 
asked. If you have the info you need -- a number, a key, a signature, 
whatever -- you get your money.  This is why criminals and spies put 
their money in Swiss bank accounts.

The wizard justice system is clearly a lot less formal than its 
muggle counterpart; perhaps the same is true of the wizard banking 
system.

--Joywitch M. Curmudgeon