Gringrotts Security

[corinthum]

No: HPFGUIDX 42574

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?"


And I reply:

I'm no accountant, and I'm pulling most of this from spy novels and
the like, so I may be wrong on some of these details.  That said...

Perhaps the account is similar to a numbered account.  In many
countries, one doesn't have to attach a name to an account.  The
account is labeled only by a number.  A hand-written version of the
number is used as a signature when withdrawing funds.  

If this is the case, Sirius could have written a letter to Gringotts,
claiming to be Harry Potter, the owner vault 711, and presenting a
hand-written verification that he owned the vault.  Gringotts wouldn't
care what name was on the letter (although they would have notified
the MoM had it been Siuris' own) so long as the number signature matched.

-Corinth