Gringrotts Security

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No: HPFGUIDX 42571

YORIS Wrote:
> 
> On the end of PoA Sirius writes in a letter to harry, he tells 
him "i used
> your name but told them to take the gold from Gringotts vault 
number seven
> hundred and eleven - my own."
> How could Sirius use Harry's name to acces his own vault? because 
for the
> people in the bank it would seem like Harry asking money from 
SOMEONE ELSES
> account, and why would they grant such a request?
> 
> Sure there is thing about the keys but what if a key would got 
stolen? i
> hope those keys aren't the only protection, you saw how easily 
sirius could
> break in into an house and what if he would have token the key of 
the people
> living there on his way?
> Also he didn't really go to gringrotts he only send an owl, and 
would he
> send his key - being the ONLY claim on all his money- with it? I 
think not,
> if he would have lost that key he would lose ALL of his money, and 
he didnt
> have a reliabel owl too.
> 
> Well it seems to me that Gringrotts security is REALLY sucky and 
then i'm
> asking myself how come noone ever abused it
> 
> Yoris
> -- wishes to be a wizzard-fraud

Harry could have been listed as a benefactor on the account.  Sirius 
would obviously know this, even if Harry would not.  But Gringott's 
would have it on file that if anything should happen to Sirius Black 
then Harry Potter would become the owner of the vault.  

Tim