Wizard Accountants & Theft (WAS Tolerance was Re: wizards and Muggles)

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 30339

Megan wrote:

>I think Ron's statement about his "2nd cousin accountant" is
> quite interesting myself, this forming the assumption that there are
> no wizard accountants (why not?) & the fact that Ron uses that title
> to associate his cousin's job as being extremely Muggle-like.  

Why no wizard accountants?  Hmmm.  It could be that wizards keep 
their gold at Gringotts and suffer no taxes, so they have no need for 
accountants.  

If this is correct, then the only reason to believe Harry's Gringotts 
vault still contains all of the gold that it did when his parents 
died is if goblins are honest to a fault.  Sirius' still seems to 
have all of his savings as well.  In fact, there doesn't seem to be a 
department of MoM that governs finance (banking and investment) at 
all.  Or it could be that the Gringott's goblins *are* the 
accountants in the wizarding world.

Another somewhat random thought that occured to me is that it doesn't 
appear that wizards steal money or property from each other.  Ginny 
steals the diary back from Harry in CoS, but that's the only theft I 
can think of.  Harry doesn't do anything special that I can think of 
to safeguard his Nimbus or Firebolt.  Wizards kill each other, they 
torture each other, they use mind control on each other, but garden-
variety pilfering seems beneath them.  I wonder why?

Cindy